We had a face-to-face service. Eunpyeong First Church in Seoul, which was ordered to shut down, will be able to hold a service again.This is because the Seoul Administrative Court accepted the church’s application for suspension of execution, asking for a moment to stop the suspension of operation.
The church held a face-to-face service on the 18th when the fourth stage of distancing was conducted and was ordered to suspend operation for 10 days.It was found that 473 people gathered on four occasions, which also violated the standards set by the court.
face-to-face religious gatherings were banned in accordance with the four-step increase in distancing, and were conditionally allowed in accordance with the court’s decision on the 16th.
!The condition was that only up to 19 people can attend! and exclude churches that violated prevention rules in the past! According to this, Eunpyeong First Church was not even conditional.
However, the court ruled in favor of the church, saying that there is an urgent need to prevent damage that is difficult to recover and that suspension of effect has a significant impact on public welfare.
This decision also contradicts the judgment that Rev. Jeon Kwang-hoon’s Love First Church rejected the suspension of operation on the 24th.
At the time, the court considered that suspension of operations could have a significant impact on public welfare, considering the fourth pandemic caused by delta variations.Even though the
court ignored the quarantine standards set forth, the decision to neutralize administrative disposition is feared to cause conflict and confusion at the quarantine site this weekend.