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spread continues in the metropolitan area. Yesterday (10th) Following a confirmation from Samsung Electronics' Suwon site, today, employees were confirmed at Kia Motors' Gwangmyeong Sohari Plant, and patients were also confirmed at Gangnam Language School in Seoul.

First, reporter Lee Hyun-jung reports.

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is a Sohari plant in Kia Motors, Gwangmyeong, Gyeonggi-do.

A man in his 50s in Gwangmyeong, who works at the plant, was confirmed yesterday after being tested for Corona19.

A son in his 20s who lives with Mr. A has also been confirmed.

A male B in his 50s at the Sohari plant in Geumcheon-gu, Seoul, was also confirmed.

Quarantine authorities believe there is no epidemiological relationship between colleagues A and B.

Mr. B was previously investigated as having contact with a related person related to the table tennis club in Yangcheon-gu, Seoul, but Mr. A's infection route has not been identified.

So far, two employees have been confirmed in the factory and three in the family. 118 colleagues who are working together are also being examined and waiting.

Kia Motors shut down the plant today.

Today, about 4,000 people are expected to go to the factory, where around 6,000 people work.

[Park Seung-won / Mayor of Gwangmyeong: We will discuss with Kia Motor's Sohari plant to decide whether to continue the operation or not depending on the results of the inspection.] At

a language school in Gangnam, Seoul, there was another confirmer.

She is a woman in her 20s who has attended classes with a confirmed person, and is believed to be the third infection from Richway, a visitor from Gwanak-gu.

The health authorities also closed down the administrative welfare center in Dongtan 2-dong, Gyeonggi-do, where the woman's father, a close contact, works.

(Video coverage: Myeong-Koo Kim, Video editing: So Ji-Hye, VJ: Noh Jae-Min)

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