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(CNN) — in case you've ever wanted to go back and forth between Japan and South Korea, there is no more advantageous time than now -- air fares are as little as $

As a alternate spat between both countries drags on, travel between them is losing -- and so are flight prices.

It fees as little as 10,000 South Korean won ($ to fly one-manner from Seoul to Fukuoka on finances airline Eastar Jet presently, and most effective 1,000 eastern yen ($ the opposite direction.

this is with the exception of tax and gasoline surcharges -- but nevertheless, brought up, the fees are some distance lower than common. The Eastar flight from Fukuoka to Seoul fees 7,590 yen ($seventy one) with all of the extra costs.

this is about 60% to 80% less than ticket expenses a 12 months in the past, according to the Nikkei Asian review.

it's specifically bizarre because September continually sees higher ticket expenditures -- many people go back and forth to seek advice from family unit for the country wide Chuseok break in mid-September, also known as Korean Thanksgiving.

tourists in previous years have complained on on-line forums about expenditures being as excessive as a couple of hundred US greenbacks.

Rising tensions

here is simply the newest facet-impact of the ongoing trade dispute, which begun in July when Tokyo positioned controls on South Korea exports of three chemical substances, which might be used to make desktop chips, among different things.

last month, Japan officially removed South Korea from its checklist of favored buying and selling companions. In response, South Korea did the same, and ended a military sharing contract with Japan that was signed in 2016.

Tensions before then had been rising for months, stemming in part from Japan's colonial rule over the Korean Peninsula in the early twentieth century.

previous in August, South Korean President Moon Jae-in pointed out the country became "a victim of super suffering from japanese imperialism" in a statement on the battle.

Now, the nations' tourism industries are taking a hit. there were 561,700 South Korean tourists journeying Japan in July -- a reduce from the equal time last yr, in accordance with eastern government information. The reverse is additionally authentic -- the number of jap travelers to South Korea dropped by way of from may additionally to June, then from June to July, in keeping with the government's Korea Tourism company.

These declining go back and forth figures are being reflected in airlines' flight prices and schedules.

In August, Korean Air spoke of it was cutting six flight routes to and from Japan, citing "lowering demand of eastern routes because of Korea-Japan tensions."