Jinju City COVID-19 Taxi Damage Revitalization Measures... Priority Support for App Mileage System Changes

Expansion of Call Communication Fee Support from May 1

COVID-19 Impact Taxi Revitalization Measures
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[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Jinju City, Gyeongnam Province, announced on the 29th that it held a meeting with taxi industry stakeholders on the 7th to gather difficulties and suggestions, and has prepared support measures for the taxi industry struggling due to the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19).

The city decided to expand the taxi call center communication fee support, which has been provided since 2013 for 658 corporate taxis in three call centers for the brand taxi project, to about 400 individual taxis as well.

This is because in March of this year, the three taxi call centers?Jeil Call, Jinju Call, and Namgang Call?were integrated to ensure fairness in support among taxi call center companies and to support the taxi industry and taxi call center operations, which have been stagnating due to COVID-19. The expanded support will begin on May 1.

Additionally, the city decided to change the payment criteria and expand support for the mileage system of the Jinju Taxi app, a public taxi-hailing app developed and introduced for the first time in Gyeongnam in 2016, which has been supported since 2017 to promote its use and improve taxi transportation services.

Until now, the city evaluated taxi drivers’ acceptance of Jinju Taxi app calls and customer complaints to assess friendliness, paying up to 400 KRW per call as mileage to taxi drivers. However, starting May 1, up to 1,000 KRW will be paid per call.

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