Colleges in downtown Seoul, which delayed the start of school for two weeks, began the spring semester with online lectures on the 16th, but students are unable to take classes properly due to server downs.

The online teaching method is unfamiliar to both professors and students, and confusion has arisen when several people access school servers at similar times.

On the morning of this day, the school servers for online courses were temporarily down for Korea University, Kookmin University, Seoul National University, Chung-Ang University, Seoul City University, and Korea University.

Some students who were unable to attend the class because the access to the course page could not be accessed by some users were worried, "What should I do if I am absent from the server?"

The server management department of each university is in the process of repairing the server by increasing the number of people who can access it simultaneously.

The Korea University e-learning support team announced on the morning of the school day that "the server is down due to an overload". "Please connect to the wired Internet where stable access is available and take classes and try to log in simultaneously from multiple devices." I hope you don't. "

On the website of Kookmin University, a notice was posted saying, "Video upload and viewing service will be temporarily suspended due to server emergency inspection."

Son Mo (21), Department of Mathematics Education at Korea University, said, "My friends who are listening to real-time lectures talk a lot about the server being blown up."

There was also an error, such as no sound during the video playback, or the video was frequently cut off.

In Konkuk University, Hanyang University, etc., when a lecture video is played, messages such as "Cannot load video", "It is not the course period", and the message cannot be played, or "The network is unstable and the attendance time cannot be acknowledged." I also did.

A student at Hanyang University said, "I'm confused because I can't tell if my computer is a problem or a server problem."

The professors who gave lectures online are also troubled.

Professor Oh Byeong-cheol of Yonsei University Graduate School of Law said, "I want to provide a more vivid video lecture, but most of my professors are in their 40s and 50s, so I am not familiar with the video platform itself."

On the other hand, due to concerns about corona19 infection, all the classes were held online for the time being, and the university campus was tumultuous.

The student hall and the library only had a few staff members, and even the rarely seen students went home after an urgent work alone.

It was difficult to find promotional materials for clubs that were tightly attached to each bulletin board.

“I'm not meeting my motives to refrain from drinking and gatherings at school because of Corona 19,” said Jang Eun-ho, a professor of history at Kyunghee University.

Body temperature was also measured against students entering and leaving the building.

A thermal imaging camera is installed at the entrance of the student council at Seoul National University.

Kookmin University installed tents at the front door to measure the body temperature of students and outsiders entering and leaving the campus, and records the list of visitors in the guestbook.

When a girl walked down the side of the street without seeing the tent, an official jumped to the student and said, "You have to put your student ID or staff ID on the terminal here."

The Yonsei University Student Union Hall was closed to the central entrance and was only accessible by underground passages.

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