<Anchor> The
quarantine authorities are urging you not to hold a meeting at the end of this year, and to cancel any previously scheduled appointments.
Everyone knows that it should be done for the sake of everyone's health, but self-employed people who have been struggling all year have no choice but to sigh.
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<Reporter> A
raw fish restaurant located in Securities Street in Yeouido, Seoul, amid the spread of coronavirus, the number of lunch customers has already decreased for several days.
[Sashimi Restaurant Staff: Did you get almost 15 minutes for lunch business today?
If you do it, you will have more than 40 seats.]
Ahead of the increase in distance, there are several calls to cancel dinner reservations.
I am worried about the sashimi prepared in consideration of the reservations.
[Only today, more than 10 (reservations) were canceled this evening.
Sea cucumber, octopus, and abalone are all fresh, but I have to use them all this week.] This
is a Korean traditional restaurant with a large room.
At the end of the year, the year-end party was held mainly by group guests, but today (23rd), dozens of reservations were canceled right away.
[President Han Jeongsikjip: You can assume that everything will be cancelled.
Right now, it has been canceled from 30 people today, and calls that keep coming in now are cancellation calls.
There are only two of you in the evening.]
Sales fell sharply during the upgrade stage in August, but if it disappears by the end of the year, the damage will be bigger.
[((Last time (August)) there was once in stage 2. How was it then, sales?) What is sales in half.
Then something completely...
I got a loan, filled it with it, and held on.
Now.] When a
confirmed case occurs, companies are reluctant to meet outside because businesses must be closed or many employees must be inspected.
Naver and Kakao encourage full telecommuting, and large corporations such as Samsung, SK, LG, and GS also recommended telecommuting, and imposed restrictions on business trips and bans on drinking parties.
[4th group officials: It is an atmosphere that avoids going out and eating as much as possible, meetings with outsiders as much as possible, and it is not a matter of course for year-end dinners and meetings...
.] In the
fourth week of August, when the quarantine stage rose to 2.5, the average sales of small business owners nationwide decreased by 25% compared to the same period last year.
Self-employed people, who have been cursed all year by Corona, are deepening concerns again between livelihoods and quarantine.
(Video editing: Oh No-young, CG: Seo Hyun-joong, VJ: Jeong Min-gu)