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Yes, these days, there are many sayings that the economy is difficult because of corona, but economic indicators came out last month to check how bad things actually got. The service industry, which suffered the most from the reluctance of people to go outside, fell the most since the statistics were compiled in 2000.

Reporter Hwagang Yoon will deliver the details.

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The prevalence of infectious diseases has significantly changed consumption patterns through social distances.

The shopping district near the government building has been cut off.

[Jung Woo-suk / restaurant staff: The number of customers coming by itself is so diminishing. 'Why didn't those who came back then?']

A travel agency that even hung up on the phone was closed.

[Travel agent: I have no questions and no electricity bills to open, so I am closing it. You can think of it as nothing at all.]

The economic impact of Corona 19 was the biggest in the service sector, where food, food, lodging, and transportation businesses were the only ones that sold out.

Last month, service industry production fell 3.5% from the previous month and fell the most since statistics were written.

Production, consumption, and investment indicators froze at the same time, with retail sales declining to the highest in 9 years and mining in 11 years.

An official from the Ministry of Information and Technology said, "The characteristic of this crisis is that the service industry has a huge blow."

It has been pointed out that the likelihood of negative growth is high in the first quarter, as the number of confirmed patients has increased sharply since mid-February and contracted production and consumption further.

(Video coverage: Kang Yun-gu, video editing: Chae Cheol-ho)

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