Vaccines from abroad don't cut it in Korea.

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The glitch makes life difficult for a relatively small group of people like Franziska who got jabs abroad but reside here. It's going to be an even bigger problem as Korea tries to open its borders again and get back to normal -- without being able to accept foreign inoculation records.  
 
Franziska made the effort to get her vaccine record registered at her local health center in Mapo District, western Seoul. It didn't work.
 
Flummoxed, she called another health center in Yongsan District, central Seoul, but was given the same reply: If you are a foreign national in Korea who was vaccinated overseas, your vaccine records cannot be registered with the Korean health system.  
 
There is one way out for people in Franziska's situation: quarantine exemptions. These are given to foreigners entering Korea and allows them to skip the 10-day quarantine process that other visitors must endure. The exemption is a requirement to get an overseas vaccination registered in the Korean health system. 

Fraziska와 같은 상황에 처한 사람들에게 탈출구 하나가 있는데, 격리검역(隔離檢疫) 면제(免除)이다. 

 
Quarantine exemptions are being issued in very limited circumstances, such as urgent business trips, humanitarian missions, or if the visitor has immediate family residing in Korea.  
 
This policy by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) has left many fully inoculated expats in Korea nonplussed and exasperated -- and excluded from some public facilities like movie theaters and gyms.  
 
“Many foreigners in Korea like myself who have been vaccinated outside this country are placed in a very inconvenient and frustrating position where we cannot enjoy the incentives for the vaccinated because the government does not recognize our overseas vaccination records,” says Theo Cheng, 32, a Canadian expat who was transferred to Korea two months ago.
 
“My current options are to either wait until the KDCA changes the policy or just get vaccinated again in Korea, though I don’t know if it is even medically safe to get four jabs within a few months’ span," he says. "I also wouldn’t want to take a vaccine that can be used on someone else who needs it more than me.”

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https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2021/11/15/national/socialAffairs/covid19-foreigners-kdca/20211115174715276.html

 

cut it
INFORMAL
To come up to expectations; To meet requirements.
"This CD player doesn't quite cut it"