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Reporter Kwon Ae-ri is here.
Reporter Kwon, I've been introducing many times in the friendly economy, and even when the supply was stopped, I was told that the government's consumption promotion coupon, this business was stopped again, right?
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Yes, the government's eight major consumption coupons, which were released for the first time in just two days in August, but were discontinued due to the rapid re-proliferation of Corona 19, began to resume one by one in two months from the end of last month. There was a situation.
It has been only one month since the first release of coupons for performances and exhibitions began to be used as they resumed.
Until last week, when the metropolitan area and other parts of the country were upgraded to 1.5 levels, the government policy was that these 8 major consumption coupons would continue to go.
However, over the weekend, a second-stage upgrade was put in place in the metropolitan area, and eventually it was stopped nationwide.
Among the eight major consumer coupons, the one that caught the most attention was the eating out coupon.
This was resumed from the 30th of last month, and there will be quite a few people who have already reached the limit for discounts.
If you eat out 3 times over 20,000 won on the weekend, you will be refunded 10,000 won at the 4th weekend dining out.
These people will see 10,000 won refunded to my card next month.
There may be people who have eaten out enough to receive refunds and have started accumulating the number of times they eat out, and these achievements are all recognized when eating out coupons are resumed.
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Eating out. I think I can do it later. Some people have booked a trip or accommodation with this coupon. What should they do?
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fact, it is said that it is at the crossroads of the 3rd coronavirus pandemic, but there are some people who are just forced to travel, but there are many who are hesitant to postpone.
You will have to postpone or get a refund, but there may be cases where you can talk with the company well, but if you want to give a full refund or refuse to go, it may not be processed smoothly.
On the other hand, there may be cases where you have downloaded government coupons online but have not yet used them for reservations or reservations.
In this case, these coupons are not valid from today (24th).
There will be no discount reservation.
However, there are discount coupons for agricultural and fishery products distributed in private distribution chains, including large online shopping malls.
This keeps going.
If you shop often or order fresh food online, you may have seen a discount on the event, saying that there are occasional coupons for farming.
In addition to the government's discount subsidies, companies have been carrying out shopping cart discounts sequentially by adding their own events or card discounts, but this has little to do with stimulating citizens' activities, and it continues until the budget is exhausted this year.
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Except for agricultural and fishery discount coupons, the rest of the coupon businesses seem unlikely to resume within this year?
<Reporter>
Yes, this year's national budget allocated here was about 170 billion won.
Among them, agricultural and fishery coupons, which account for about KRW 60 billion, continue to be discounted so that it will be exhausted within this year, and the budget for the remaining seven fields will not be practically exhausted within this year.
However, in the next year's budget, there are already budgets for discount coupons that follow these eight coupons.
The size is also much larger than this year.
Next year, the scale is approaching 500 billion won, a little over 490 billion won.
We've already caught nearly three times this year's money.
If this year's coupons are carried over to next year, the bulk of next year's government discount will be bigger.
However, if the same situation continues next year, coupons have resumed, stopped. There is no law saying that this should not happen again. Even if discount coupons are released all at once in the second half of next year because the vaccine is well distributed, the effect on the market is in fact May appear.
The government-provided discounts are widely distributed at once, which can actually increase the market price for some items, such as agricultural products, and it is pointed out from many places including the National Assembly Budget Office that the design needs to be elaborated.
You may remember that when the first disaster support payment was paid, the effect of actually raising the price of meat appeared.
In addition, it is appropriate to increase the budget and look at it while not being used enough to calculate how much of the eight coupons this year actually affected consumption promotion, rather than government coupons that can only be found and used by applying with a card and checking and paying attention. There are also opinions on whether it would be better for the government to use the classic way to promote consumption and relieve the tax burden.
Given that consumption is so shrinking, it is understandable that the government intends to save the atmosphere by distributing coupons, but the government needs to think deeply about these questions amid repeated interruptions.