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Reporter Kwon Ae-ri is here.
Reporter Kwon, I have introduced you several times in the friendly economy, and even when the supply was stopped, I gave you news. The government’s consumption promotion coupon, this business was stopped again, right?
<Reporter>
Yes.
The government's eight major consumption coupons, which were released for the first time in just two days in August, and then stopped being distributed due to the rapid re-proliferation of Corona 19, began to resume one by one in two months from the end of last month, but were halted again.
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's policy was to keep going with these 8 consumption coupons.
However, over the weekend, a second-stage upgrade was put in place in the metropolitan area, and eventually it was stopped nationwide.
Out of the eight consumer coupons, the one that caught the most attention was the eating out coupon.
This was resumed on the 30th of last month, and there are probably 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.
Those of you will see that 10,000 won has been 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?
<Reporter> In
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 people 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 will keep going.
If you shop often or when you order fresh food online, you may have seen a discount on the event, saying that you are occasionally exercising coupons for farming.
In addition to the government's discount subsidies, companies have been sequentially offering shopping cart discounts by adding their own events or card discounts, but I don't think this has much to do with stimulating citizens' activities, and it continues until the budget is exhausted this year.
<Anchor>
Except for discount coupons for agricultural and marine products, 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 continue 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 this year continues next year, coupons will be resumed or stopped. There is no law saying that this should not happen again. Even if discount coupons are released at the end of next year because the vaccine is well distributed, the effect on the market is in fact May appear.
As the government-provided discounts come out on a massive scale, some items, such as agricultural products, may have the effect of actually raising the market price, and it is pointed out from various places including the National Assembly Budget Office that the design needs to be elaborated.
You may remember that the first disaster support payment actually increased the price of meat.
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. There are also opinions on whether it would be better to relieve the tax burden and the classic consumption promotion method that the government can use.
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.