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A law recently passed by the National Assembly to allow self-employed people who suffered damage from Corona and to demand a reduction in rent from the building owner.

There are many doubts that the building owners will really reduce the rent because the law has changed, but it is pointed out that public institutions should take the lead.

I will explain the highway rest areas, which became difficult to expect even for Chuseok.



This is Lee Sung-hoon.



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parking lot at a rest area in Gangwon-do is so flat that the number of parked vehicles can be counted.



Some stores are closed with few customers.



Another rest area in Gyeonggi-do, which was crowded with tourist buses carrying tourists at this time of year last year, but after the re-proliferation of the corona, it quickly became quiet.



Vendors and merchants are crying.



[Restaurant store owner: (Sales) fell by 20% or 30%.

I missed it a lot, but there is no way we can do it at will.] I



was hoping for a Chuseok holiday when the highway is crowded, but with the atmosphere of a'non-face-to-face holiday' recommendation to refrain from moving around, eating in the rest area indoor stores was banned during the holidays. The blow is inevitable.



[Restaurant shop owner: You can't eat at the rest area, so customers won't come in.

I check the heat stock, write the name, and I hate this, so people don't come in at all.]



From February to August this year, when the corona began to spread in earnest, sales of rest areas nationwide decreased by 27.8% from last year.



In April, the Korea Expressway Corporation lowered commissions by 30% and put up a six-month postponement of rent payments, but 23 stores were unable to sustain their business and gave up business.



[Song Suk-jun / Member of the National Assembly's Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee: I think it is also necessary to actively review plans for rent reduction in order to share the pain even at the public corporation Road Corporation.] The



Road Corporation is not reviewing additional fee cuts of the participating companies, but the operator's He said he was worried about the rent cut.



(Video coverage: Kim Hyun-sang, video editing: Jeon Min-gyu, VJ: Jung Min-gu, Park Hyun-woo)