Mayor Oh Se-hoon Reviews Operation Status of '120 Dasan Call Foundation'... Congratulatory Address at Buddhist Art Exhibition Opening Ceremony

Checking COVID-19 Prevention Response Status... Encouraging Counseling Staff

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon will visit the 120 Dasan Call Foundation on the 12th to receive a report on its operations and inspect the COVID-19 quarantine response status.

According to Seoul City, Mayor Oh will visit the 120 Dasan Call Foundation at 9:50 a.m. that day to listen to voices from the field and attend the opening ceremony of the "Modern Buddhist Art Exhibition 空" held at the Seosomun Sacred History Museum.

The 120 Dasan Call Center is an integrated civil complaint window launched in 2007 during Mayor Oh’s tenure with the slogan "Solving Seoul City civil complaints with one phone call." Mayor Oh plans to encourage counseling staff and listen to their voices on site while the 120 Dasan Call Foundation is proactively implementing and operating various quarantine measures to improve the three dense conditions (close contact, enclosed spaces, and crowding) of call centers vulnerable to COVID-19.

Since its launch in 2007, the Dasan Call Center has been operated as the "120 Dasan Call Foundation," a city-affiliated public institution, since 2017, transitioning from a private consignment system. After COVID-19, a dedicated code (number 0) was established to handle related consultations, taking the lead in preventing the spread of the virus.

Regarding call center operations, it introduced a remote work system in March last year, the first among public call centers, and all employees are currently working in a rotating telecommuting system. Quarantine rules such as installing partitions, dispersed work, and weekly in-house building disinfection are applied in operation.

Later, at 4 p.m., Mayor Oh will attend the opening ceremony of the "Modern Buddhist Art Exhibition 空" held at the Seosomun Sacred History Museum, deliver a congratulatory speech, and perform the ribbon-cutting to mark the start of the exhibition. Attendees include Cardinal Yeom Soo-jung of the Catholic Archdiocese of Seoul, Monk Bogwang, head of the Jogye Order’s Hogyewon, Monk Deokmun, head of Hwaeomsa Temple, and Minister Hwang Hee of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

This exhibition is jointly hosted by the Catholic Archdiocese of Seoul and the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism under the theme of "Religious Harmony in the COVID-19 Era." It is significant in that it presents works embodying the Buddhist concept of "空 (emptiness)" at a Catholic martyrdom sacred site. In particular, the large-scale Buddhist painting ‘National Treasure No. 301 Hwaeomsa Yeongsanhoe Gwaebultang,’ a representative Buddhist painting of the Joseon Dynasty created for major Buddhist ceremonies, will be open to the public for the first time in 13 years.