<Anchor> As the
corona is getting longer, there are many restaurants where people lined up in front of the restaurant before, but these days, many have started delivery.
Reporter Jeong Da-eun covered the scene where self-employed people, whose customers have decreased due to corona, are struggling to survive.
<Reporter>
A milk kit manufacturing plant in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, pasta noodles and sauce are placed in packaging in order.
Seong-Hoon Lee, who runs a pasta shop in Yeonnam-dong, Seoul, started selling the representative menu of the shop as a milk kit.
It was a popular restaurant that was usually enough to wait with a numbered ticket, but this is the method I came up with when the number of store customers drastically decreased due to the spread of coronavirus.
[Lee Seong-hoon/Pasta store operation: It seems like I'm repeating my nightmare again...
As the distance went up, the number of customers decreased.
Knowing that and re-implementing itself...
.] With the
rapid growth of the home convenience food market, large food companies are rushing to release'Milkit' products, and self-employed people are no exception.
[Lee Seong-hoon/Pasta store operation: Our store's fixed costs and these are very large, so we are running it with income from Milk Kit.] The number of
orders for self-employed people in milk kit makers has increased.
[Jin-oh Jeon/Employee of Milk Kit Production Company: Recently, requests from small business owners who want to develop the representative menu of the store as milk kit are increasing.
Through online sales beyond the limits of store sales...
.]
The competition for developing delivery menus has become more intense.
This sweet potato soup shop started delivery for the first time in 30 years of business.
[Song Text/Gamjatang store operation: I'd rather close the door.
(People) are reluctant to come out.
So, we will try to deliver it once...
.] With
fewer dining out and limiting recurring sales, self-employed people, who used to operate mainly from stores, are pioneering new markets to survive.
(Video editing: Seung-jin Lee, VJ: Min-gu Jung)
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