"Foreigners, Please Get Tested for COVID-19"…Gyeonggi-do Produces Multilingual Notices in 5 Languages

[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Gyeonggi Province is drawing attention by producing and providing an administrative order urging foreigners who visited Itaewon clubs in Seoul and sleep rooms in Nonhyeon-dong to voluntarily undergo COVID-19 testing in five foreign languages including English.

On the 14th, Gyeonggi Province announced that it is providing guidance on the COVID-19 emergency administrative order issued by Governor Lee Jae-myung on the 10th in five languages?English, Chinese, Russian, Japanese, and Vietnamese?through ▲Gyeonggi Province’s official SNS and official promotional channels ▲Gyeonggi Province’s foreign language website ▲Google Blog, Facebook, Instagram ▲Chinese Weibo, so that foreigners can understand it.

The province is also conducting outreach using personal channels of 24 members of the Gyeonggi Foreigners SNS Press Corps, as well as foreign-related organizations such as the Gyeonggi Foreigners Human Rights Support Center and its partner institutions, and foreigner welfare centers, and influencers.

Governor Lee Jae-myung also urged foreigners to voluntarily get tested by posting on SNS channels such as Twitter on the 14th, saying, “Please widely share so that foreigners can understand the contents of the administrative order and get tested promptly,” along with “Please share the Gyeonggi Province administrative order so that foreigners can understand it. Anyone who visited six Itaewon clubs and sleep rooms in Nonhyeon-dong after April 24 must get tested for COVID-19 and avoid interpersonal contact.”

Gyeonggi Province has a total of 606,107 foreigners, including 418,752 registered foreigners and 187,355 overseas Koreans registered as residents.

Lee Eun-bit, head of the province’s social media team, who led the initiative to provide the administrative order in five foreign languages, explained, “This was promoted based on the characteristics of the COVID-19 infectious disease spread and prevention being a race against time, and the fact that many foreigners visit Itaewon.”

Meanwhile, following Governor Lee Jae-myung’s directive, Gyeonggi Province plans to provide disaster basic income of 100,000 KRW per person, the same as Gyeonggi residents, to about 100,000 people including marriage immigrants and permanent residents in the province, with applications opening from the 1st of next month.

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