Korea Railroad "COVID-19 Serious Stage... Company-wide Prevention of Spread at Railway Sites"

Korea Railroad President Son Byung-seok is holding an emergency countermeasure meeting on the 23rd, ordering the strengthening of quarantine activities to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Photo by Korea Railroad

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Korea Railroad Corporation (KORAIL) is making an all-out effort to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19). In line with the government’s escalation of the COVID-19 crisis alert from “caution” to “serious,” KORAIL aims to raise its crisis response capability to the highest level.

According to KORAIL on the 23rd, an emergency countermeasure meeting was held under the chairmanship of President Son Byung-seok to inspect the quarantine status at railway sites and reaffirm the company-wide response necessary to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

At the meeting, President Son ordered to maintain the existing disinfection activities conducted before and after train operations, while implementing additional disinfection whenever all trains return to the depot. In particular, for KTX trains, which have relatively high passenger volumes, disinfection will be strengthened by performing it an average of 4.5 times per day.

In addition, disinfection of stations and customer contact facilities will be increased to twice a day, and all on-site staff, including station employees who interact with customers, will be required to wear masks and gloves. From now on, temperature checks will also be conducted three times daily for all employees.

Especially, in the event that a confirmed COVID-19 case occurs among KORAIL employees, the affected workplace will be disinfected immediately, closed until the following day, and if staff shortages occur due to confirmed cases, some ticket counters will be closed and train operations will be reduced as part of the countermeasures.

President Son said, “KORAIL deeply recognizes the seriousness of the current COVID-19 situation and will mobilize the capabilities of all employees to establish a company-wide response system to prevent the spread of infectious diseases at railway sites. Furthermore, since employee safety is customer safety, we will encourage all employees to thoroughly manage personal hygiene.”

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