Uijeongbu City Conducts Safety Inspections of Multi-Use Facilities in Preparation for Chuseok Holiday

Uijeongbu City (Mayor An Byung-yong) announced that it will conduct joint safety inspections of seven multi-use facilities, including traditional markets, large discount stores, large hospitals, and bus terminals, from September 13 to September 26 in preparation for Chuseok, the nation's largest holiday, when increased traffic is expected from returning residents.

During this period, the city will jointly conduct inspections with disaster management officials, firefighters, specialists from the Korea Electrical Safety Corporation, and the Korea Gas Safety Corporation to verify the safety of electrical, gas, and fire facilities as well as their management conditions. The city will intensively inspect safety management practices including the consistent securing of evacuation routes such as emergency exits, corridors, stairways, and elevators, and violations of relevant laws and regulations including facility safety standards and business operation standards.

In particular, in large discount stores and traditional markets, there are many cases of storing items or using spaces as sales areas in corridors and stairways, which is expected to make evacuation difficult in case of fire or other emergencies, so these issues will be checked with special attention.

The city will have facility managers take prompt emergency safety measures to address any safety deficiencies noted in this inspection to ensure the safety of users, and will take strong administrative measures against any illegal activities.