One Month of In-Person Classes in the Seoul Metropolitan Area... Yoo Eun-hye: "Checking Quarantine Supplies, Supporting Remote Classes" (Comprehensive)

Over 7,000 Kindergartens and Elementary, Middle, and High Schools in the Seoul Metropolitan Area
School Attendance Schedule to Be Re-discussed After the 12th of Next Month

Deputy Prime Minister Yoo: "We Will Prepare Measures to Close the Learning Gap"

On the morning of the 21st, the first day of resuming in-person classes in the metropolitan area, Yoo Eun-hye, Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs and Minister of Education, visited a second-grade classroom at Hansan Elementary School in Gangdong-gu, Seoul, and wiped desks with disinfectant. Photo by Kang Jin-hyung aymsdream@

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Hyun-joo] Kindergartens and elementary, middle, and high schools in the Seoul metropolitan area, which had switched to full remote classes for about a month due to the impact of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), resumed in-person attendance on the 21st.

The target schools include 2,013 schools in Seoul, 790 schools in Incheon, and 4,163 schools in Gyeonggi Province. The number of students attending in person must be within one-third of the total students for kindergartens and elementary/middle schools, and two-thirds for high schools.

Going forward, each school will operate a hybrid system of in-person and remote classes. For third-year high school students (Grade 12), since the school records for early university admissions closed on the 16th, they can now also attend both in-person and remote classes.

This attendance schedule will last until the end of the special quarantine period for the Chuseok holiday on the 11th of next month. Whether to extend the attendance period will be decided later through discussions between the Ministry of Education, local education offices, and quarantine authorities.

On the 21st, when in-person classes resumed at kindergartens and elementary, middle, and high schools in the Seoul metropolitan area, Yoo Eun-hye, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, and Cho Hee-yeon, Superintendent of Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, held a meeting with the school principal and parent representatives at Hansan Elementary School in Gangdong-gu, Seoul. Photo by Kang Jin-hyung aymsdream@

On this day, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Yoo Eun-hye and Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education Superintendent Cho Hee-yeon visited Hansan Elementary School in Gangdong-gu, Seoul, to check on the progress of resumed in-person classes. They also toured the emergency care classrooms and remote learning support rooms.

Deputy Prime Minister Yoo stated that inspections of quarantine supplies will continue and that various devices necessary for remote learning will be supported. She said, "We will closely communicate with schools and consult with superintendents to devise measures to bridge learning gaps," adding, "We will provide the best support to create an educational system that is safest and most helpful for children while reducing the burden on teachers."

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