Court Allows Gatherings of Up to 50 People During Gaecheonjeol Holiday with Restrictions

Including Hosts from 4 to 6 PM

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Heung-soon] The court partially suspended the Seoul Metropolitan Government's decision to completely ban gatherings during the National Foundation Day holiday and allowed gatherings to be held with restrictions within a limit of 50 people.

According to the legal community, the Administrative Division 14 of the Seoul Administrative Court (Chief Judge Lee Sang-hoon) partially accepted two injunction applications filed by Lee Dong-wook, former chairman of the Gyeonggi-do Medical Association, on the 1st.

The court ruled that during the National Foundation Day holiday from the 2nd to the 4th, gatherings would be permitted from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., limited to a total of 50 people including the organizer, and maintained the ban on gatherings exceeding this limit.

Additionally, the court imposed conditions that the organizer must prepare a thermometer to allow only those with a body temperature of 37.4 degrees Celsius or below to attend, and must take COVID-19 prevention measures such as creating a list of attendees in order to hold the gathering.

Earlier, Lee had filed two reports to hold gatherings from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. during the holiday period but received a prohibition notice from the Seoul Metropolitan Government, after which he applied for an injunction and filed an administrative lawsuit.

Initially, Lee reported plans to hold a gathering of 100 people in front of Exit 7 of Gyeongbokgung Station and on the third lane of the sidewalk, and a gathering of 300 people on the sidewalk and three lanes of the road in front of Kyobo Bookstore in Gwanghwamun.

Lee, who has criticized the government's COVID-19 quarantine policies, plans to hold the gathering under the name "Stop Political Quarantine and COVID-19 Infection Prevention Lecture."

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