Gwangju City Selects Ju Byeong-o as 'Employee of the Month'

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City has selected Yoo Byung-oh, an officer in the Safety Policy Division of the Citizen Safety Office, as the ‘Civil Servant of August.’

According to Gwangju City on the 1st, Officer Yoo contributed to designating and operating the dormitory of the Fire Academy, which had been used as a facility to quarantine those who had direct contact with COVID-19 confirmed cases, as a ‘Residential Treatment Center’ from the end of February in preparation for the increase in overseas arrivals.

Additionally, as the number of confirmed cases among overseas arrivals from Europe and the United States surged and domestic inflow rapidly increased, he promptly established the 2nd and 3rd Residential Treatment Centers. He took preemptive measures by strengthening entry management beyond government guidelines through the issuance of special administrative orders, filtering out 36 confirmed cases among overseas arrivals, and was recognized for his contribution to preventing the regional spread of COVID-19.

Even while responding to COVID-19, he worked hard on safety culture tasks, selecting the city’s first ‘No. 1 Safety Village, Safety School, and Safety Company,’ motivating citizens’ voluntary participation in safety, forming a task force for the selection of the No. 2 group, collecting opinions, finalizing evaluation indicators, and promoting awareness.

In the With Corona era, he also earned recognition for contributing to the spread of the Safety Culture 3·3·3 Movement by leading the voluntary participation of 70,000 members of the ‘Pan-Citizen Disaster Safety Promotion Group’ to promote compliance with citizen quarantine rules, actively pushing the ‘Online and Offline Certification Shot Relay Campaign.’

Officer Yoo said, “With the second wave of COVID-19 starting in the metropolitan area and community infections spreading, all citizens are enduring difficult times, and overseas arrivals have not decreased, so we cannot let our guard down every day. We will thoroughly quarantine and manage overseas arrivals and do our best to prevent the regional spread of COVID-19.”

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