'First Day at Work' Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon Begins Official Schedule with Visit to National Cemetery... Visits Seoul Metropolitan Council and Vaccination Center

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] Oh Se-hoon, elected as the 38th Mayor of Seoul, began his first official schedule on the morning of the 8th with a visit to the National Seoul Memorial Cemetery in Dongjak-gu at 8 a.m.

Mayor Oh then headed to Seoul City Hall at 8:50 a.m. for his first day at work and attended a welcoming event prepared by the city in the first-floor lobby. He is expected to receive a bouquet prepared by city employees and deliver his inaugural remarks. Following this, at around 9:10 a.m., he will receive and sign the handover documents from Seo Jeong-hyeop, the Administrative Deputy Mayor who acted as mayor for nine months, in the mayor’s office on the 6th floor.

After receiving the handover documents, Mayor Oh plans to pay a courtesy visit to Kim In-ho, Chairman of the Seoul Metropolitan Council, at 10:40 a.m. He will express his determination to cooperate more closely and strongly to overcome the economic and social crises triggered by COVID-19 at an early stage and to revive public livelihood. Attending this meeting will be Seo No-won, Director of the City Council Secretariat, Kim Cheong-sik, Chief Secretary to the Chairman, and Jo In-dong, Director of the City Planning and Coordination Office. The lunch will be held with staff responsible for COVID-19 response to encourage their efforts and listen to the current response status.

In the afternoon, Mayor Oh will inspect the COVID-19 vaccination status. At 1:30 p.m., he will visit the ‘Seoul City’s 1st Vaccination Center (Seongdong-gu Office Auditorium)’, which opened on the 1st, to encourage medical and administrative personnel on site and check the center’s operation status. At this event, Mayor Oh will express his commitment to devise all possible measures to expedite the return to normal life for citizens through swift and safe vaccination.

He will also review the overall center operation and the safety of the vaccination environment by inspecting the process from waiting, preliminary examination, vaccination, to monitoring. Since the mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna administered at the vaccination center must be kept in an ultra-low temperature frozen state, he will closely check the operation status of the vaccine storage freezers and the aliquoting process.

A Seoul city official explained, "After completing the official schedule, in the afternoon, Mayor Oh will greet senior officials of Seoul City, encourage their efforts so far, receive reports on major city administration issues, and begin full-scale work."

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