"One 080 Call, Convenience Worked" KT Call Check-in Used by 6.3 Million Daily

Total of 425 Million Users Accumulated

[Asia Economy Reporter Cha Min-young] The KT Call Check-in service, which allows convenient entry record tracking for all citizens with just one phone call to '080-3XX-XXXX,' has surpassed 6.3 million daily users.

KT announced on the 12th that the daily users of Call Check-in, which uses the existing wired telephone infrastructure to check entry in just 3 seconds by phone, have exceeded 6.3 million. This is the result of a steady increase over 11 months since its launch at the end of September last year. It surged 66% in one month compared to the July average of 3.8 million. The cumulative number of users totals 425 million.

The number of Call Check-in subscription lines has also continuously increased during the same period. The number of subscription lines was 10,000 at the end of September last year, grew more than tenfold to 105,000 by the end of November, and reached 967,000 lines as of the 7th.

KT's Call Check-in service is more intuitive to use and less prone to authentication errors than the method of generating and verifying QR codes on smartphones. There is no delay for QR code authentication, and users of regular mobile phones (feature phones), which cannot generate QR codes, can easily use it. Compared to manual logs, it offers not only convenience but also very high security.

Due to these advantages, Call Check-in has been introduced for efficient quarantine management at 197 local governments nationwide, baseball stadiums across the country, all branches of Kookmin Bank, department stores, marts, outlets, bookstores, and small business owners and shops in various regions. On the 27th of last month, according to the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters' 'Strengthening Management Measures for Entry Logs at Large-scale Stores such as Department Stores,' the introduction of telephone entry management services at multi-use facilities such as department stores and large marts was made mandatory.

KT plans to continuously enhance the convenience of using Call Check-in by providing phone number information stickers and other means to easily check the Call Check-in phone numbers assigned to multi-use facilities.

Min Hye-byeong, Head of KT Enterprise Service DX Division, said, "The Call Check-in service is eliminating blind spots in entry records," adding, "We will strive to improve the service and expand its reach so that citizens can use it easily, conveniently, and with peace of mind."

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