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In schools starting school this week, it is difficult for teachers and parents to decide whether to wear or take off masks during class.

The Ministry of Education said it would release accurate school quarantine guidelines in the middle of next month.



Reporter Lim Tae-woo reports.



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All the children are wearing masks in the elementary school bus.



It's because I've heard enough stories that you must wear a mask on the school bus.



In the classroom, some children take off their masks to attend class.



[Seoho Shin/Seoul Gwangjang Elementary School 2nd Grade: (Because I take off the mask) It's cool.

It's comfortable to breathe.

It's convenient when I just say it.]



However, most of them are not familiar with the changed standards, so they are using them as they are.



[Jang Bo-mi/Seoul Gwangjang Elementary School 2nd Grade: I haven't seen many of my friends' faces, but they haven't seen my face too much, so I'm ashamed of that.] From



a parent's point of view, it's not easy to tell the kids that it's okay to take off the mask for fear that the teacher or other students will notice. .



[Jung Mi-sol/Parent: My child could be infected, or if another child got sick, my child could get it from school, so I was concerned about that part, so I just made sure to wear (a mask).]



Teachers are not yet willing to take off their masks to class. It's burdensome.





[Lee Hu-nam / Principal of Gwangjang

Elementary School in Seoul: Since it is the first day that starts with the fact that you can wear an indoor mask voluntarily, it is not a situation where you are forced to completely remove the mask or forcible guidance.]

Later, it was announced that the school quarantine guidelines would be supplemented and guided by the middle of next month, before the start of the new semester.



(Video editing: Kim Jun-hee, VJ: Shin So-hee)