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Kwon Aeri's friendly economic Friday order. Reporter Kwon, it's already known that the use of cards has been increasing instead of cash, but recently, the 50,000 won usage has been increasing since Corona 19. How did this happen?

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Yes. The fortress looks interesting.

Originally, 50,000 won issuances increase year after year and Chuseok, because there are many people who need cash for the holidays, including tax money and parents' pocket money.

The same was true this year.

Before the New Year's Day, a lot of paper money of 50,000 won was released, but unlike the normal times, these 50,000 won are not returning to the Bank of Korea.

In a word, 50,000 won went home and are not returning home.

Take a look at this time last year. Even before the New Year's Day, the Bank of Korea released 50,000 won in full volume last year.

The amount of money collected is larger than the 50,000 won taken in January and February for another two months by spending 5,360 trillion won worth in January and 50,000 won taken in February to March. .

This is what it looks like after an ordinary New Year.

But if you look at this year, in January, it was taken again at the same level as last year, and in February, the amount of issue was reduced by last year, but in February, it seemed to be like a shiny last year. .

The Bank of Korea also controls the amount of paper money sent out while looking at the demand for paper money on the market.

So, after the new year, the amount of issuance is going to be drastically reduced. In April, this year, we had to increase the amount of 50,000 won by 66% more than the same month last year.

Compared to the 50,000 won scale that didn't go back home in March-April of this year when the 50,000 won mark began to disappear in earnest, this year is almost 14 times more than last year.

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Where are the 50,000 won runaways from?

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must be seen that they are not coming out of the closet, under the blanket, or in someone's vault.

Even financial institutions such as banks are not recovering. The first reason to think about it is that the amount of money exchanged in markets and marts has decreased.

Because people don't meet each other, so-called face-to-face transactions are reduced, so cash is less likely to be used in transactions.

[Jeong Bok-yong/Director of the Bank of Korea Ticketing Planning Team: In the case of this year, the same holiday funds were issued before the New Year. But while the corona spreading the age shown in the stand immediately after rattling the domestic economy How much atrophy appeared as a result while also shrinking commerce activities increasing the monetary issue funds in the wind currency exchange quantity shrink.]

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go not smart, even going no market Even if you only do online transactions, it's normal to take the money to the bank, but then it's normal to return to the bank.

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Right. In fact, if you look at 50,000 won only as a means for trading right now, paper money should come to a bank or something, but it is not coming.

From here on, it can be said as'corona's paradox'.

I rarely spend cash, but the demand for cash is on the rise.

I want to have it quietly. After the corona crisis, there are not many people who just put the 50,000 won in the drawer and bring it to the bank as the anxiety about the economy or various situations has grown rapidly.

On the one hand, it proves that the interest rate is low.

I can say that this atmosphere is not very well made because it is a low interest rate.

In fact, this quiet increase in cash demand is not unique to Korea.

Globally, there are reports of increasing demand for cash, which can be called real money.

Paper money suffers a lot in the corona era.

Because people don't meet each other, there are few chances to play a role, and as the results of the experiment that the coronavirus lasts for four days on the surface of the paper money,'I don't want to touch it. I don't want to use it for transactions, too.

On the other hand, as a kind of safety asset, a situation that is hiding in the closet is also being created.

If it weren't for Corona, there would be a way to think about the different faces and different faces of the cash paper money currency that I would never have looked into.