Jeongeup-si Operates 'Electronic Entry Log' System for Access to Entertainment Venues

Fines and Gathering Ban Orders Imposed for False Reporting and Other Violations

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Jaegil] Jeongeup City, Jeonbuk Province announced on the 11th that it will operate an electronic entry log (KI-PASS) system using QR (Quick Response) codes for high-risk facilities to prevent the spread of COVID-19 infections.

Managers and visitors of high-risk facilities such as entertainment bars are required to use the electronic entry log system utilizing QR codes.

The eight facilities designated as high-risk include entertainment bars, emotional bars, colatecs, hunting pochas, karaoke bars, singing practice rooms, indoor standing concert halls, and indoor group exercise facilities.

The electronic entry log was introduced to prevent gaps in quarantine caused by false entry records, to identify users of facilities used by unspecified many people, to secure contact information, and to block infections.

Facility managers install a manager application and manage the entry log of related facilities through business registration number and mobile phone authentication on the application.

Users receive a one-time QR code per person on their smartphones when visiting related facilities and show it to the facility manager.

Facility information and user visit records collected through the facility manager app are stored and managed on the Social Security Information Service server, and collected information such as name and contact information is automatically destroyed after 4 weeks.

The electronic entry log system using QR codes is temporarily applied during the serious and caution stages of the COVID-19 infectious disease crisis alert level, and if it is inevitably impossible to use the QR code, visitors can be managed by manually writing the entry log.

Also, if the entry list is falsely written or poorly managed, business owners and users may be punished for violating quarantine rules.

Since many facility managers are elderly and there are expected limitations in the use of the electronic entry log, the city will conduct electronic entry log facility manager training three times from the 11th to the 12th.

Through the training, the city plans to guide 112 high-risk facility managers such as entertainment bars on how to use QR codes and promote and educate to establish the electronic entry log early.

A city official said, “Since the electronic entry log is a system implemented to block COVID-19 infections and enable rapid quarantine measures, we ask for active cooperation from facility managers and users of high-risk facilities.”

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