High school students working part time at a restaurant saved a diner who suddenly lost consciousness by performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
According to the Ulsan Office of Education on the 5th, Yoon Jae-gun, a second-year student at Ulsan Daesong High School, and Moon Hyun-seo, a second-year student at Hwaam High School, who are friends, were working their weekend part-time shift at the Ilsan Branch Center restaurant in Dong-gu, Ulsan, at about 1:30 p.m. on the 28th when the owner shouted urgently, "119, 119."
When the two students looked around the restaurant to see what was happening, they saw an elderly man in his 80s sitting at a table, frozen in place and unresponsive. His companions were beside him but did not know what to do.
Moon, who saw this, immediately ran over, laid the man on the floor, tilted his head to secure the airway, and Yoon, after confirming the man was barely breathing, began chest compressions.
After about two minutes of chest compressions, the man regained consciousness, and a few minutes later, when the 119 paramedics arrived, he was safely transported to a hospital.
The students' good deed became known when a witness posted about it on the schools' online community.
Yoon said, "I think I learned CPR close to 10 times from a young age by following my father, who is a special in-house rescue team member at HD Hyundai Heavy Industries. The safety training I learned at school also helped," adding, "I am really glad we handled a real situation without panicking."