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Public officials such as post offices and agricultural cooperatives sold masks from yesterday (27th), but many citizens found it, but they had to return empty-handed. 1.9 million copies have been released from the most urgent areas of Daegu and Gyeongbuk, but they are still inadequate.

I'm Je Hee Won.

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Pharmacies in Seoul have been struggling all day to send people back to buy masks.

This is because we haven't received any public sales.

[Pharmacist: Today, when the news is released from the government, the (guests) come and protest 'Why (the mask) does not come'. The phone lights up too… .]

The same is true for the post office, another public dealer.

This is a post office in Seoul. Many citizens came here to buy masks in the morning, but as you can see, there are signs that they are sold only in Daegu, Qingdao and post offices in Korea.

[When you sell. (From March 2….) No way really. I'm going to step on the old man and make it hard.]

Nonghyup Hanaro Mart outside of Daegu and Gyeongbuk is also having difficulty securing stocks.

[Seoul Nonghyup Hanaro Mart Employee: (Mask) Not yet. The government hasn't supplied it yet. There is a saying that I'm coming in tomorrow.]

As criticism grew, the government explained that time was needed in the contract process between the producer and the public dealer.

[Hong Nam-gi / Deputy Prime Minister: I am sorry to hear that the supply and demand of masks is still occurring despite various measures. ”

It will take another day or two for the government's mask supply to be delivered normally.