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Introduced safe call to 080 Phone nunber entering traditional markets (protecting your personal info)



 


When merchants and consumers make a call to a market-specific number (080-XXX-XXXX) when entering a traditional market, the access time and phone number information are stored on a separate computerized server, and the information is automatically deleted after 4 weeks.

 

The Seoul Metropolitan Government will implement intensive special quarantine until December to prevent the outbreak of COVID-19 in traditional markets, where there has been a recent mass infection among merchants, and to minimize the spread of infection to the community by responding quickly even if there is an infected person.



Introduced safe call access list system to traditional markets with more than 100 stores and medium-to-large marekts

First of all, the ‘entrance management safety call’ will be introduced at 108 mid- to large-sized traditional markets where it is difficult to identify visitors, which may cause difficulties during epidemiological investigations. Targets include large-scale traditional markets with more than 100 stores and large floating populations, traditional markets with joint workshops such as meat processing and manufacturing, and markets with many foreign workers.


When merchants and consumers make a call to a market-specific number (080-XXX-XXXX) when entering a traditional market, the access time and phone number information are stored on a separate computerized server, and the information is automatically deleted after 4 weeks. In fact, in the case of traditional markets, handwriting lists are not well managed and accurate information is often not left, making it difficult to conduct epidemiological investigations when a confirmed case occurs.


The city said that an average of 655,000 visitors a day to the 108 markets where the safety call was introduced. In particular, it is possible to quickly investigate street vendors, mobile merchants, short-term workers, foreigners and delivery workers, which were previously difficult to obtain information. It will help prevent the spread of COVID-19, he said.


In addition, he added that it will prevent leakage and theft of personal information due to the creation of a handwritten list, and increase the efficiency of quarantine management by making it easy to use even for the elderly who have difficulty using QR codes.

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