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New Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon is pushing ahead with the city s own quarantine measures, saying the current anti-coronavirus restrictions have failed to address people s livelihoods. The move comes amid growing complaints from small business owners reeling from financial woes owing to the central government s uniform social distancing regulations.
Oh, affiliated with the main opposition People Power Party, plans to introduce practical and flexible business hours instead of blanket bans on businesses after 9 p.m. or 10 p.m. regardless of industry. For example, the city is seeking to ease regulations on business hours for entertainment pubs until midnight and for poker pubs until 11 p.m. To dispel concerns about cluster infections, he also proposed the use of rapid self-test kits for coronavirus. Oh reiterated his arguments at a Cabinet meeting chaired by President Moon Jae-in Tuesday, saying,