President Moon: "Schools Are the Frontline of Quarantine... Online Classes If Confirmed Cases Occur" (Comprehensive)

Visited Seoul Jungkyung High School to Check Back-to-School Preparations... "What Our Parents Worry About Most Is Always Their Children's Health and Education"

[Asia Economy Reporter Ryu Jeong-min] President Moon Jae-in visited Jungkyung High School in Yongsan-gu, Seoul on the 8th and said, "The success of social distancing in daily life along with quarantine depends on the success of school quarantine," adding, "What our parents worry about the most is always the health and education of their children."

In particular, President Moon emphasized, "Now schools are the frontline of quarantine," and "Schools where confirmed cases occur will immediately switch to online classes." This conveys the unavoidable situation of school reopening from an educational perspective, despite ongoing concerns surrounding COVID-19.

He also highlighted that alternatives are being prepared should concerns about COVID-19 rise again. The event was attended by Jungkyung High School faculty, parents, and Professor Choi Young-jun from Hallym University College of Medicine.

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President Moon checked the actual temperature screening and hand sanitizing conducted at the main entrance where students enter and received explanations about the school's fever monitoring activity standards.

He visited the cafeteria and listened to explanations about quarantine measures during meal distribution and eating processes, hygiene management of cafeteria facilities and staff, staggered meal times by grade to minimize contact among students, installation of partitions on tables, and social distancing markers during meal waiting times.

During his movement within the school, President Moon briefly observed a science class where real-time interactive remote learning was taking place, and encouraged the teachers who prepared the remote classes and the students who have been unable to attend school for a long time.

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President Moon asked a teacher, "It is already a big deal to be able to conduct online classes interactively, but since it is a science class, how do you handle experiments and practical activities?"

The teacher replied, "For programming, we have separate programming classes, and we record experiment videos where the teacher demonstrates the experiments in front of the video."

President Moon said, "I hope children understand well and feel that considering others during social distancing is for their own good," and urged, "Let us all work together with the determination to prevent even a single infection and create a safe school life."

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