There were many constitutional petitions and administrative lawsuits and applications for
suspension of execution regarding the implementation of the quarantine pass, and the Seoul
Administrative Court released its decision on four applications for the suspension of
enforcement around January 2022, amidst the controversy over the quarantine pass.118) It
received much attention for the decisions were both to recognize and dismissed to suspend
execution depending on the subject and purpose of the request for suspension of execution
and the judgment of the court.119)120)
Meanwhile, the results of the public opinion poll on the introduction of the quarantine pass
showed a wide range of fluctuations depending on the spread of COVID-19, the subjected
industry, social events, and investigation agencies, and in general, opinions in support of the
quarantine pass were greater than those for abolition.121) After much controversy and
lawsuits, the government repeatedly delayed the implementation of the quarantine pass for
adolescents, but from March, the quarantine pass, including adults, was completely
suspended. The CDSCHQ announced that it had considered regional confusion following
the court ruling and raising issues from the political world and the media.122)
B) Controversy Over the Quarantine Pass
Immediately after the first outbreak of COVID-19 in 2019, countries took measures to
block the borders, and it became common to require vaccination confirmation or PCR
negative confirmation for cross-border movements. However, the key reasons for these
measures to become a problem when they were introduced under the name of a quarantine
pass is that the targets were expanded to teenagers, and the targeted facilities included
118) Seoul Administrative Court, Decided on Jan. 4, 2022, 2021Ah13365, Seoul Administrative Court, Decided on Jan.
14, 2022, 2021Ah13539, Seoul Administrative Court, Decided on Jan. 14, 2022, 2022Ah10052, Seoul Administrative
Court, Decided on Jan. 18, 2022, 2022Ah10088
119) The court suspended the execution of quarantine passes for academies, study rooms and study cafes implemented
by the Minister of Health and Welfare, quarantine passes for shops, markets, and department stores implemented
by the mayor of Seoul, and quarantine passes for teenagers aged 12 to 18 implemented by the mayor of Seoul. On
the other hand, the court rejected the application for suspension of quarantine passes for large stores of 3,000 m2
or larger.
120) SBS, Comparing the Court’s Decision on Quarantine Pass – Reason for Different Decisions?, Jan. 17, 2022.
121) Korea Research, Inside public opinion, [COVID-19] Public opinion on quarantine pass and vaccination of minors,
Jan. 5, 2022.
122) Korea Policy Briefing, No more ‘QR Check-in’… All quarantine pass temporarily suspended from March, Feb. 28, 2022.
47
اختر الفقرة المستهدفة3
الاتصال بفقرة
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
أضف إلى جدول المحتويات