Asiana Club - How long to clear ICN immigration?

I am flying in F on OZ from HKG to ICN arriving at 5:45pm.

I realize this is a peak time of arrivals especially from N. America.

Does OZ at ICN offer any kind of escort for F customers like TG at BKK?

If not, is there any kind of "fast track" at immigration?

How long can I expect immigration to take under normal circumstances?

I am flying in F on OZ from HKG to ICN arriving at 5:45pm.

I realize this is a peak time of arrivals especially from N. America.

Does OZ at ICN offer any kind of escort for F customers like TG at BKK?

If not, is there any kind of "fast track" at immigration?

How long can I expect immigration to take under normal circumstances?

The only fast track I know of is by running quickly from the plane. The only trick which has worked for me sometimes was to not go to the immigration which was the one I reached when coming from the gate but to the one further to the right or left.
I have never waited more than 15 Minutes for immigration and even in economy it should have never been more than 30 minutes. I also often just had instant clearance.

That time is a very peak time. Sometimes immigration has been deserted if I arrive a bit early, and sometimes it take 45 minutes or more. There's a Vietnam Airlines flight that arrives about that time and it seems that they carefully screen all the Vietnamese passengers. So if you arrive before that flight it might not be too bad. If you arrive after it, it can take a very long time.

At that time I've only ever seen two immigration zones open. One for OZ and some of the A concourse passengers, and one for KE and I presume other A concourse passengers. I've never tried to walk over to the KE immigration zone, and don't know if there's anyone there to try to prevent you from doing so or not. Later in the day they do open up a second group of immigration counters next to the normal OZ one, and at that time it does often pay to check which one has shorter queues.

One suggestion for quicker processing. Stand in the rightmost foreigner queue, which should be adjacent to the leftmost Korean queue. If the flights arrive such that the Korean queues become empty, someone from immigration will direct some of the people from the rightmost foreigner queue to the Korean immigration counters. Normally this works out well for me, but once it was a big mistake and took me at least twice as long just because I guess the immigration officer assigned to my queue was extremely slow in processing passengers. Also look at how many passengers look like they may be Vietnamese or third-world South East Asians, Indians, Pakistanis, etc. If there's one line that doesn't have as many of these people, choose that line and it will normally be faster.

Does OZ at ICN offer any kind of escort for F customers like TG at BKK?



OZ never have any kind of escort for F pax in any airport period, maybe that is something for them to think about. True F experience should include escort thru immigration, that is what most pax really needed.

The reason I ask is that I've never been to Seoul.

I debated about staying in the city overnight, but with a 5:45pm arrival and a 1:10pm departure the next day I don't think it is worth it.

I figure the earliest I would be at a hotel would be 8pm and I would have to leave by 9:30am the next morning.

I think in this case I'll just have to settle for staying at the airport at the Hyatt.

The reason I ask is that I've never been to Seoul.

I debated about staying in the city overnight, but with a 5:45pm arrival and a 1:10pm departure the next day I don't think it is worth it.

I figure the earliest I would be at a hotel would be 8pm and I would have to leave by 9:30am the next morning.

I think in this case I'll just have to settle for staying at the airport at the Hyatt.

Stay at the Westin Chosun and visit the nearby night market for a taste of Korea.