Halloween Day Emergency... Police Conduct Three-Day Intensive Crackdown on Clubs and Entertainment Venues
From 29th to 31st, targeting Itaewon and Hongdae
Over 8,000 caught in illegal entertainment venues since the '4th wave'
[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Gwan-joo] The police will conduct joint inspections and crackdowns on entertainment venues such as clubs for three days starting from the 29th, ahead of Halloween on the 31st of this month.
According to the National Police Agency on the 25th, the inspection targets entertainment venues in areas with a high concentration of foreigners and young people, including Itaewon, Hongdae, Gangnam, and Seocho in Seoul; Seomyeon in Busan; Bupyeong in Incheon; and Ansan and Pyeongtaek in Gyeonggi Province. The police plan to mobilize all available personnel, including riot police and tourism police units, and will strengthen intelligence gathering on clubs operating secretly, in addition to regular patrol activities. A police official explained, "This is a preemptive measure to prevent cluster infections before the phased transition to daily life recovery."
From the 18th to the 24th, the police uncovered 40 cases involving illegal entertainment venues violating quarantine rules, apprehending 540 people. Since the full-scale onset of the fourth wave in July, the number of people caught during the 16 weeks of special crackdowns on illegal operations at entertainment venues has increased to 1,131 cases and 8,436 individuals.
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On the 23rd at around 9:05 p.m., the Gangnam Police Station in Seoul raided an unlicensed entertainment bar located in the basement level 1 of a building in Sinsa-dong, detaining a total of 226 people, including the owner, two employees, and 223 customers. The establishment was registered as a general restaurant but was found to have installed sound equipment and a stage to operate as an unlicensed entertainment bar. In Daegu, on the 21st, 10 people were caught at an entertainment bar that secretly operated with its sign lights off and doors locked. Among those apprehended, three were Thai women residing illegally.
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