Gyeonggi Province Prepares Comprehensive Chuseok Holiday Plan

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Park No-hoon] Gyeonggi Province has prepared a "Comprehensive Chuseok Holiday Plan" for residents' safe and comfortable celebration and announced on the 21st that it will actively respond to COVID-19 spread and safety accidents that may occur during the holiday period.

This comprehensive Chuseok holiday plan consists of a total of 10 sectors including ▲COVID-19 infectious disease response ▲civil complaints processing ▲transportation and freight ▲livelihood stabilization ▲support for vulnerable groups ▲emergency medical care ▲safety accident prevention ▲inspection and supervision ▲environmental pollution response ▲integrity of civil service.

To this end, the province plans to establish a "Comprehensive Chuseok Holiday Situation Room" and emergency duty system for five days from September 30 to October 4 to minimize inconvenience to residents.

In particular, given concerns about COVID-19 spread due to large-scale movement of residents, the province will organize and operate a quarantine response task force, and will prepare response teams in the area of residents' livelihood including price stabilization and support for underprivileged groups to ensure a safe and comfortable Chuseok holiday.

Inconvenience complaints during the holiday can be reported to the "120 Gyeonggi Province Call Center."

■COVID-19 Infectious Disease Response
The province will operate screening clinics at six Gyeonggi Provincial Hospitals and health centers throughout the province to support immediate testing. Additionally, in preparation for additional confirmed cases, it will operate infectious disease-dedicated hospitals and living treatment centers, and will operate epidemiological investigators in each city and county to conduct thorough epidemiological investigations when confirmed cases occur. Among those who had contact with confirmed cases, close contacts are classified as self-quarantine subjects and are continuously monitored for daily symptom development and unauthorized departure.

■Civil Complaints Processing Measures
The 120 Gyeonggi Province Call Center (031-120) will operate 24 hours even during holidays to receive inconvenience reports from residents, and can also provide traffic information and emergency medical facility guidance, as well as consultation services for foreigners.

■Transportation and Freight Countermeasures
To ensure the safety of residents using public transportation, mask-wearing is mandated for passengers, hand sanitizers are provided, and vehicles and terminals are disinfected at least once daily. To provide convenient mobility for residents, real-time road traffic information is provided through the Gyeonggi Transportation Information Center website (gits.gg.go.kr), mobile web (mgits.gg.go.kr), mobile app (Gyeonggi Traffic Information), and Twitter (@16889090), and intercity bus operation frequencies and taxi even-odd regulation are flexibly operated according to the demand of returning travelers.

■Price Management and Livelihood Protection Measures for Common People
Operating a "Price Countermeasure Comprehensive Situation Room" for Chuseok holidays from the 21st, the province designates 16 peak-season items including agricultural, livestock, and marine products as priority management targets and operates price responsibility system together with cities and counties. Price responsibility managers plan to check price increase trends for holiday peak-season products and take the lead in promoting the use of local currency and Omnicard gift certificates and revitalizing traditional markets.
Additionally, to promote labor rights for residents, the province operates a wage delinquency reporting center by phone to provide consultation and relief support for wage delinquency.

■Expanded Support for Vulnerable Groups and Social Welfare Services
For 73,053 elderly living alone, the province conducts customized elderly care services including emergency contact network maintenance, high-risk target list preparation, and periodic wellness checks, and will mobilize 3,919 life management specialists and emergency safety alert personnel to respond to emergency situations.
The province sent letters and consolation funds to social welfare facilities on the 18th to support vulnerable groups, completed delivery of side dishes and prepared ingredients and provision of food vouchers in preparation for meal gaps for hungry children, and plans to provide lists of restaurants operating during the holiday or alternative food items.

■Chuseok Holiday Emergency Medical Care System and Quarantine Countermeasures
To prevent medical service gaps and maintain emergency medical systems, emergency care situation rooms and designated hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies will operate during the holiday period. By contacting the 120 Call Center, 119 Emergency Situation Management Center, or 129 Health and Welfare Call Center, you can receive information on emergency medical facilities and designated hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies. Real-time confirmation is also possible through the Gyeonggi Province Government website (gg.go.kr), the Central Emergency Medical Center website (www.e-gen.or.kr), and emergency medical information provision apps.

■Safety Inspection of Vulnerable Facilities and Reinforced Disaster Response Posture
All fire departments will enter special alert duty during the holiday period, and in particular, will deploy 75 dedicated ambulances for transporting COVID-19 confirmed and suspected patients and actively conduct emergency activities including checking access roads and maintaining emergency contact networks for temporary isolation facilities for smooth entry. Additionally, the province will conduct non-face-to-face autonomous safety inspections and consulting for fire safety management at vulnerable facilities until October 5 and plans to promote various campaigns including relay contributions for fire safety and gift fire extinguishers for hometown homes.

■Price Stabilization and Inspection and Supervision of Agricultural, Livestock, and Marine Products
From the 21st to the 25th, the province will conduct hygiene inspections on 120 school meal material suppliers and 240 manufacturers and investigate poor food conditions including country-of-origin relabeling, expired shelf lives, and unlicensed manufacturing, and plans to take distribution prohibition measures such as seizure and disposal of substandard and defective food products.

■Household Waste Management and Special Environmental Pollution Surveillance
The province will operate city and county mobile response teams to quickly respond to household waste collection inquiries. To block the discharge of environmental pollutants, the province plans to implement special surveillance of major rivers and emergency duty for chemical accident response to address environmental pollution and safety accidents that may occur during the holiday period.