Daegu City Files Complaints Against Two Room Party Bars Operating Until Dawn... 17 Foreigners Deported

A scene at a pub caught by the Daegu City special inspection team for violating quarantine rules and operating late into the night.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Dong-wook] During the year-end Christmas holiday period, two establishments in Daegu that violated quarantine rules by holding room parties until dawn were caught in a special crackdown, resulting in the deportation of 17 foreigners.

Daegu City announced on the 3rd that, as a result of joint inspections with the police under the special year-end and New Year quarantine measures from December 24 last year, two entertainment establishments that violated the administrative order banning gatherings and continued operations, as well as five restaurants that violated the rule of no dining after 9 p.m., were caught. The two entertainment establishments were reported to authorities.

In particular, during a raid in the early morning of the 27th of last month, authorities forcibly opened the door of an establishment that was holding a party until 5 a.m. and booked the business owner. Among those caught at this location, 19 foreigners were deported, and general citizens were fined 100,000 KRW each.

According to the government's extension of the special quarantine administrative order at the beginning of the year, five types of entertainment facilities?including entertainment bars, karaoke bars, emotional pubs, hunting pubs, and colatecs?are prohibited from operating until the 17th.

Daegu City plans to take strong measures against establishments that operate in defiance of the administrative order during this period or restaurants that allow customers to dine after 9 p.m.

Kim Heung-jun, head of the Hygiene Policy Division of Daegu City, emphasized, "Despite the implementation of strengthened quarantine rules, as double-digit new confirmed cases continue to occur in the region, we will strengthen inspections to block large-scale local spread of COVID-19 and respond firmly to establishments violating administrative orders."

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