More than two-thousand Chinese tourists arrived in Incheon on Monday morning, marking the first time this year that a Chinese cruise line has brought one of its ships to the port.

Incheon Port Authority said that the Dream — a 77-thousand-ton vessel operated by Tianjin Dongfang International Cruise carrying two-thousand-189 passengers and a crew of 563 — docked at Incheon Cruise Terminal on Monday morning.

Those who arrived on the ship, which departed from Tianjin on Saturday, were scheduled to tour Seoul and Incheon before returning the same day.

Though the ship happened to arrive on the day that South Korea’s visa-free entry program for tour groups took effect, immigration authorities have clarified that the group entered the country under a separate preexisting permit system for cruise ships.

That system had already permitted groups of three or more Chinese travelers to enter South Korea.