South Korea Completes School Reopening
Besides some schools in the Seoul area the vast majority of South Korea’s schools are now open:
![A Covid-19 testing center in Songpa District, southern Seoul, is packed with people wanting tests Monday after health officials announced that a high school senior who visited Lotte World in Jamsil, Songpa, last Friday tested positive for the virus on Sunday. [YONHAP]](https://i0.wp.com/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2020/06/08/a0c4e2d0-4487-41c7-b5fc-3b7a0045b182.jpg?w=640&ssl=1)
The final batch of students returned to school Monday, completing a three-week phased reopening of schools as Korea steps into the post-Covid-19 age.
Joong Ang Ilbo
Yet even as fifth, sixth and seventh graders finally began their school year after a three-month delay, anxiety loomed in many parts of the Seoul metropolitan area, where several clusters of coronavirus infections have popped up lately.
The Ministry of Education announced that 517 schools remained closed Monday, almost all in Seoul, Incheon or Gyeonggi, due to fear of infections. The closed schools account for about 2.5 percent of 20,902 nationwide schools.
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Schools sort of open, students go only 1 or 2 days a week.
They’re just going to end up closing again anyway.