Pohang City Implements 'Work from Home' for Civil Servants Who Are Parents of CSAT Students... "Avoid Traveling to Other Cities and Provinces"

'Special Quarantine Week' Implemented One Week Before the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT)

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Dongwook Park] Pohang City announced on the 25th that it will operate a special quarantine measure week, including allowing city employees with examinee children to work from home ahead of the College Scholastic Ability Test (December 3).

First, to strengthen the safety management of examinees, special disinfection will be conducted at test sites before and after the exam on December 1 and 3. In addition, five quarantine officers will be assigned to each test site, and an emergency contact system will be established in case of suspected patients, along with a response manual for the test day.

Furthermore, management will be strengthened for 1,923 locations including PC rooms, arcades, karaoke rooms, academies, private tutoring centers, and movie theaters. Intensive disinfection will also be carried out around the test sites and major commercial areas in the city.

Pohang City has also instructed employees to postpone business trips, meetings, events, dinners, and conferences until after the test day. Employees with examinee children under Pohang City will be allowed to work from home from December 1 to 3.

Song Kyungchang, Vice Mayor of Pohang City, emphasized, "To protect the efforts of the examinees, we earnestly ask that visits to other regions and visits by family and relatives to our region be strictly refrained from until the test day, and that contact with others be minimized."

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