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It has been just a week since the government began to provide Corona 19 emergency disaster relief funds. So far, about 73% of all households have received about 10 trillion won.

If so, self-employed reporters are seeing the effect of the subsidy, reporter Lee Seong-hoon covered the scene.

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Namdaemun Market in Seoul has been revitalized after a long time.

The number of customers has gradually increased since last week when disaster relief funds were released.[Kim Byung-yong / Namdaemun Market Merchant: The number of customers has also increased since the weekend. You are buying a lot of items used at home, such as foodstuffs.]

73.6% of all households received more than 10 trillion won in disaster aid, but it is a neighborhood convenience store that enjoys the benefits.

Instead of a large-scale mart with limited use, it was a convenient store with good accessibility, and demand for shopping was concentrated.

[Lim Byeong-gu / Seoul Jungnang-gu: Since large-scale marts cannot use disaster relief funds, they rarely go, and they use a lot of convenience stores. .]

Food and fruit and vegetable sales increased by nearly 40% from last month, and wine sales increased significantly.

Products such as relatively expensive glasses are also sold well.

It is the so-called 'small luxury' that allows people to simply enjoy things they could not buy at the usual price burden.

[Song Young-seop / Angkyung Branch President: Sales increase by 20%… It is not a necessary product, but it seems that there are a lot of people using it as it comes in.]On the other hand, the streets of Myeong-dong, Seoul, where foreign tourists are the main customers, are quiet.

If you walk around the street, you can easily find a store with a notice on the lease, but the commercial district in Myeongdong is still in a downturn.

[Myeong-dong Merchant: (Since the disaster relief funds have been released, I think you will have anticipation…) Of course. It's been released, so even a little bit of people will come out, but it doesn't appear

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In the self-employed industry, it is a subsidy like drought due to drought, but as it is a short-term stimulus, merchants are most concerned about the long-term situation.

(Video editing: So Ji-hye, VJ: Jung-gu Jung)