"No More Second or Third Weapon Rampages"... Local Governments Busy During Chuseok Holiday

Comprehensive Chuseok Measures from September 25 to October 4
24-Hour Disaster Safety Situation Room Operation
Enhanced Safety Patrols on Park Walking Trails, etc.

Seoul's district offices have announced comprehensive Chuseok measures. Jung Won-oh, Mayor of Seongdong-gu (right in the photo), embarked on a traditional market livelihood tour for Chuseok. (Photo by Seongdong-gu)

Each district office in Seoul will enter an emergency duty system for the Chuseok holiday starting from the 25th. Each autonomous district will implement comprehensive Chuseok measures from the 25th of this month to October 4th to ensure that residents can have a safe and warm holiday. Although the holiday period is from the 28th to October 3rd, comprehensive measures will be implemented for up to ten days before and after the holiday.

Especially this year, as there have been many 'random crimes' such as knife attacks targeting unspecified individuals, each district office has decided to thoroughly operate a 24-hour disaster safety control room and strengthen safety patrols on park walking trails.

Seongdong-gu plans to implement meticulous and thorough comprehensive measures in six major areas during this period: safety, traffic, daily life, price stabilization, welfare, and establishment of public service discipline. In particular, this year’s Chuseok comprehensive measures will focus on safety management by operating a 24-hour disaster safety control room to prevent safety accidents through concentrated monitoring of closed-circuit television (CCTV). A separate park patrol team will be organized for mountainous parks and walking trails to strengthen patrols twice a day, in the morning and afternoon.

The health center’s screening clinics will operate from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. even during the holiday, and will respond to emergencies 24 hours a day through the health center consultation call center.

Gwangjin-gu will also deploy a total of 992 personnel to the Chuseok situation duty team during the same period to maintain a 24-hour emergency preparedness system. Five task forces, including the disaster safety comprehensive situation room, traffic countermeasure team, flood and typhoon countermeasure team, park countermeasure team, cleaning countermeasure team, and medical countermeasure team, will be formed to minimize inconvenience to residents.

For outbound and inbound travelers, the number of bus operations at Dong Seoul Terminal will be increased, and traffic facilities such as bus stops, traffic lights, and traffic signs will be inspected.

Gangseo-gu will focus all efforts on preventing the spread of infectious diseases and managing facility safety. From the 25th for ten days, the COVID-19 disaster safety countermeasures headquarters and emergency quarantine task force will be activated at the health center, and during the same period, the health center screening clinic for priority COVID-19 testing will operate from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. A total of 85 hospitals and clinics and 146 pharmacies will be designated and operated in rotation to promptly handle urgent patients.

Yeongdeungpo-gu will strengthen resident safety by conducting pre-inspections of disaster-vulnerable areas, safety facilities, and large construction sites. To prepare for autumn typhoons, real-time weather monitoring will be conducted, and an emergency duty system will be maintained. Disaster-vulnerable areas such as rivers and flood-prone zones, as well as rainwater inlets and rainwater pumping stations, will be inspected in advance to ensure rapid response in emergencies.

To ensure no neighbors are left out, consolation money will be delivered to 14,800 households receiving basic living subsidies, 10 communal living facilities and organizations for marginalized groups, and 43 elderly medical welfare facilities. The safety of 1,559 elderly living alone will be checked via phone calls, and real-time safety monitoring will be conducted using the Internet of Things (IoT).

Additionally, the disaster safety countermeasures headquarters system will operate 24 hours a day to prepare for disasters such as typhoons and heavy rain.

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