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Starting today (11th), you can apply for emergency disaster relief funds by credit card or check card. On the first day, the online application was made without any problems, and some card companies offered a prize to collect people and canceled it.

This is reporter Yoo Duck-gi.

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Starting from 7 am today, the application for emergency disaster relief funds through the card company's homepage and smartphone app began.

It went smoothly without any incident, but there was a delay in accessing the website of some card companies once in the morning.

This week, the application subtitle was applied, so today, only the heads of households whose birth year is 1 and 6 can apply.

As of 6:00 p.m., 1.154 million households were reported to have applied for a total of 1.37 trillion won in disaster aid.

In Gyeonggi-do and Seoul, more than 300,000 households applied each.

It is estimated that about 10 trillion won out of 14,300 trillion won will be applied for credit or check card points.

It is an opportunity for card companies to expand their customers.

So, some credit card companies tried to give prizes when they applied for their disaster relief funds with their own company's cards, and they were withdrawn by financial authorities.

However, Woori Card and Samsung Card carried out marketing, saying that it is inevitable that the already announced part is inevitable.


[Card company officials: Once we stopped. (But) there are customers who have already received (text) guidance. For those who applied, proceed as it is ... .]

You can apply from the 18th of the next day to receive emergency disaster relief funds with a prepaid card or a local love gift certificate.

(Video coverage: Kang Dong-cheol, video editing: Jong-tae Kim)