Gwangju City Imposes Gathering Restrictions on Entertainment Venues Including Clubs Starting from the 2nd

COVID-19 Serious, Until Alert Status Lifted

Joint Inspections from the 8th... Violations Will Be Reported

Gwangju City Hall

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 1st that it will implement gathering restrictions on entertainment facilities such as clubs, entertainment bars, and karaoke bars within the city from 6 p.m. on the 2nd until the COVID-19 severe and caution alert levels are lifted to strengthen COVID-19 quarantine management.

This measure will be applied to 1,177 locations including clubs, entertainment bars, karaoke bars, emotional pubs, hunting pochas, and colatecs within the city. The targeted facilities are advised to refrain from operating as much as possible, and if operation is unavoidable, they must strictly comply with the core quarantine rules set by the government.

The core quarantine rules include ▲preparing and managing visitor logs ▲checking symptoms at entry points and restricting entry of symptomatic individuals and high-risk groups ▲all business owners and workers must wear masks ▲checking workers’ symptoms at least once a day and sending symptomatic workers home ▲appointing a quarantine manager ▲conducting disinfection before and after business hours.

Users of the targeted facilities must also comply with the core quarantine rules such as ▲filling out visitor logs (providing their name, phone number, and showing ID) ▲cooperating with symptom checks ▲prohibiting entry of symptomatic individuals and high-risk groups ▲wearing masks.

To guide and promote these core quarantine rules, the city will deliver notices to all businesses by the 7th, and from the 8th, 340 personnel including public officials, police officers, and consumer food hygiene inspectors divided into 20 teams will conduct joint inspections to check compliance with quarantine rules.

If quarantine rules are violated, business owners will face closure orders and fines (up to 3 million KRW), and users will also be fined (up to 3 million KRW).

Lee Pyeong-hyung, Director of the Welfare and Health Bureau of the city, said, “High-risk facilities are places with a high risk of COVID-19 cluster infections, so we recommend refraining from operating them as much as possible. If operation is unavoidable, please strictly follow the core quarantine rules.” He added, “We also ask citizens, as the final quarantine managers, to actively participate in COVID-19 prevention by refraining from using high-risk facilities as much as possible.”

Meanwhile, the government’s electronic entry log system for high-risk facilities is scheduled to be introduced after the 10th.

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