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Today (4th) is Monday, but it was a day that felt like a holiday because there were a lot of people resting all the way from last week to children's day tomorrow. It was found that department store sales increased as people went outside and opened their wallets this holiday.

Reporter Sung Hoon Lee will tell you more.

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An outlet in the suburbs of Seoul rejuvenated.

Masked shoppers lined up in front of luxury stores.

[Han Sang-hyeon / Seoul Guro-gu: I've been feeling frustrated at home for a while because of corona, so I

went out for a while to spend a while outside the company.] The toy store is crowded with family members who want to buy gifts for Children's Day.

[Lee Myung-hoon / Ilsan-dong, Gyeonggi-do: On the day of Children's Day, my grandmother told me to buy children's clothes. It's nice to eat rice together.]

Department stores in the city are also crowded with shoppers.

There are signposts that sell products at low prices all over the store, and they are on a special discount event aimed at the golden holiday.

The industry expects the so-called 'compensation and consumption' effect of pouring out long-suffering consumption at the same time as Corona 19.

[Lee Seul-bi / Gangdong-gu, Seoul: Since I'm still at home, I'm trying to buy something that I haven't bought so far to go shopping while I came out today.]

Indeed, department store sales increased by 8.8% from last year to 13.3% during the Golden Holiday, showing signs of a rebound.

[Department store officials: Consumers increased about 25%. During the holiday period, the response to home appliances and furniture was good, and consumer sentiment seems to recover a lot afterwards.]

However, as it can be stopped with a special glow and the size of the online market has increased with corona, it takes more time to recover sales of offline distribution channels. There is also a prospect that it will take.

(Video editing: Yumira, VJ: Min-gu Jung)