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Today (22nd), kindergartens, elementary, middle, and high schools in the metropolitan area started going to school every day. After 592 days of online schooling last year, the school has also started to recover.



Expectations and concerns come together, and reporter Song In-ho covered the site.



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Early in the morning in the sudden cold weather, elementary school students enter the school gate one by one.



[Nice to meet you, are you happy to come to school?]



I hold my children's hands and see them off to the front of the school, and they hug me tightly in case it gets cold.



All kindergartens, elementary, middle, and high schools across the country started full school today.



Elementary care and after-school classes have also resumed.



It has been 1 year and 8 months since remote classes were conducted concurrently due to COVID-19, and the daily recovery of the educational field has begun.



I agree with the need to close the educational gap and recover students' psychological and emotional health, but the re-spreading Corona 19 is a big concern.



[Um Hyeon-jeong/Parent: (elementary school students) are in a situation where there are dozens of confirmed cases, so I have some anxiety in this situation.]



Distance classes are also possible at the discretion of the school.



[Changsu Kim / Principal of Hwibong High School in Seoul: If a student is confirmed in one class, only that class cannot switch to online classes, and the entire school year has no choice but to switch online.] School



rules have also been partially changed.



If the family is self-quarantined, students who have completed the vaccination can go to school without conditions, and students who have not completed the vaccination can go to school if the PCR test is negative within 48 hours.



Even if a family member is confirmed, a student who has completed the vaccination can go to school if the PCR test is 'negative' and asymptomatic.



On the first day of full school attendance, 117 elementary, middle, and high schools in Gwangju and Jeonnam took remote classes due to the outbreak.



The government decided to set up a guidance and inspection team with local governments and operate it until the end of the year for off-school facilities with high risk of infection, such as private academies, PC rooms, and karaoke rooms.



(Video coverage: Seol Min-hwan, video editing: Jo Moo-hwan)  



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