After its voluntary nine-day shutdown, the language institute is also to restart its lectures with the arrival of their teachers.
"We feel sorry for making people concerned," said Kim Young-wha, president of the institute. "We will do our best to prevent recurrences of such problems through our new health monitoring system."
In preparation for its reopening, the institute yesterday launched a health monitoring program and "flu-free zone" campaign aimed at all its staff, teachers and students.
With its existing standards tightened, teachers will receive medical checkups regularly and their fever development is to be examined twice a day. When they have light symptoms, they will be treated following the recommendations of the disease control agency, according to the institute.
From the CDI website:
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What about the students? Most of the time I get sick, it's because the parents force their sick children to come to school...
I'd second that, as I sit here with a sore throat and a nagging sniffle!
You know, back when I did my CDI orientation, I was told that unless I was vomiting blood I should expect to be in the classroom, teaching. What's up with this wimpy new batch of foreigners? When I had the flu, my head teacher gave me a blanket to help my feverish chills and sent me back into class.
Alex, I know you're being completely serious.
My horror story? I told my boss that I would be out with pneumonia. She agreed to give me the morning off, but expected me to come in that afternoon. This is the same day as my hospital visit, mind you. After a 10 minute argument with my girlfriend, she agreed to give me one whole day off. For pneumonia.
At Incheon they don't even let you get off the ramp until everyone gets their temperature checked now. You have to fill out a form, check off any symptoms you've had, what seat you sat at, and then hand it in to the health people blocking your access to the terminal.
Mindmetoo.. they've been doing those airport checks since April. In Tokyo, they actually come onto the plane. Too bad they don't seem to know anything about the incubation period. I had no symptoms when I got off the plane and look what happened to me.. lockdown, infected and now I get to do temperature checks twice a day. Great. Obviously, the immune system isn't studied in Korean business schools.
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