Gwangju City to Conduct Joint Inspections of Public Hygiene Businesses Starting from the 18th

Gwangju City Hall

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 17th that it will conduct a joint inspection to ensure compliance with the ‘social distancing in daily life’ guidelines at public hygiene establishments in the area, which involve close personal contact, to alleviate citizens' anxiety caused by the recent cluster infections at entertainment venues in the Seoul metropolitan area.

The inspection will be carried out from the 18th to the 29th, with over 30 personnel from 15 teams including the city, autonomous districts, related associations, and honorary public hygiene monitors deployed. They will guide and check compliance with social distancing measures at approximately 3,300 locations such as hair salons, lodging facilities, and skin, nail, and makeup businesses.

The main inspection items include ▲whether all employees wear masks ▲availability of hand sanitizers in the workplace ▲checking customers for symptoms (fever or respiratory symptoms) ▲whether employee management logs are maintained ▲whether disinfection and ventilation are conducted in the workplace ▲posting of promotional posters, among 15 items in total.

The city plans to provide on-site guidance to establishments that do not comply with the requirements and will conduct follow-up inspections to strongly enforce adherence to the guidelines.

Lee Pyeong-hyung, Director of the Welfare and Health Bureau of the city, said, “As COVID-19 infection cases have occurred in bathhouses in other cities and provinces, Gwangju will do its best to manage quarantine measures at public hygiene establishments to prevent similar cases from occurring.” He added, “We hope that both citizens and business operators will thoroughly observe the ‘social distancing in daily life’ guidelines.”

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