Daejeon O-World, which had been closed since the escape of a wolf named "Neukgu" on April 8, will reopen on Sunday.
According to the Daejeon Metropolitan Corporation, which operates O-World, the Geum River Basin Environmental Office sent an official document approving the reopening to O-World a day earlier, the corporation said Wednesday.
The corporation had received an order from the Geum River Basin Environmental Office in April to suspend the use of zoo facilities, and has since carried out safety inspections across the facilities and pursued measures to prevent recurrence. After being ordered to submit an action plan and completion report containing recurrence-prevention measures within one month, the corporation submitted the action plan to the Geum River Basin Environmental Office on the 18th of last month.
Following the facility-use suspension order, the corporation is said to have completed work that included doubly reinforcing the steel fencing and electric wires of the wolf enclosure and reinforcing concrete beneath the soil.
The Geum River Basin Environmental Office subsequently conducted an on-site inspection of the implementation of the measures on the 29th of last month and confirmed there were no problems. The corporation plans to hold a press briefing in front of the wolf safari inside O-World on the 4th, and reopen from 9:30 a.m. on the 5th.
Neukgu's health condition is reported to be good. "He no longer eats ground meat and now eats raw chicken and other foods like the other wolves," an official from the corporation said. "He has been reunited with his family, and has become so lively that he jumps even higher than before."
After escaping from O-World on April 8, Neukgu was captured around 12:44 a.m. on the 17th of the same month near the Anyeong Interchange in Jung-gu, Daejeon. At the time of discovery, his weight had decreased by about 3 kilograms, and a 2.6-centimeter fishing hook was found in his stomach, which was removed through an endoscopic procedure.
"A wolf autograph for 30,000 won?!" While you were going wild over Neukgu bread, someone else lost their entire fortune.
