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Old Apr 12, 2018 | 2:26 pm
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petaluma1
 
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Originally Posted by guflyer
Which terminal did you fly out of at ICN? When I flew out of ICN Terminal 2 (the new Korean Air Terminal) at the end of February, they were not giving pat-downs, however, they had MMW body scanners and did not have the ability to opt-out. I was very disappointed by this. Now you have me curious about whether I could have avoided this by going through the other terminal.
Did you happen to note if there were as many false alarms with those machines as there are with the ones in US airports? And if there were false alarms, how were they resolved, with a full on sexual assault or a targeted pat down?
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