<Anchor> The



government is pushing ahead with a plan to make it possible to re-use eating out coupons as early as this week.

The policy is to allow it to be used for non-face-to-face delivery orders.



For more information, reporter Hwa Kang-yoon reports.



<Reporter> In



mid-August, the government introduced eight consumption coupons, including eating out, traveling, lodging, performances, and movies, in order to save consumer sentiment, which has been shrunken by the coronavirus.



However, due to the spread of the corona, it has repeatedly stopped and resumed, and has been virtually stopped after the third pandemic.



As such, the usage rate was only 31%, excluding the agricultural and fishery field coupons that were available online.



In particular, 10% of the KRW 33 billion allocated for eating out coupons was not executed.



The government decided to resume the payment of coupons so that they could only be used face-to-face, i.e., delivered food only, considering that face-to-face eating out could be a vehicle for the spread of the coronavirus.



[Hong Nam-ki/Deputy Prime Minister of Economy: If it becomes an obstacle to quarantine, it will be difficult to implement measures to boost consumption.

As far as possible, non-face-to-face or online consumption is encouraged…

.] If



you pay 3 times at a restaurant, you will be deducted 10,000 won for the next payment.



It doesn't apply to go to restaurants and regular delivery orders, it seems to be limited to orders made with delivery apps.



Although it is an effort to somehow save the spark of consumption, the situation for delivery restaurants is relatively better, and equity controversy is also raised.



[Suk-jin Woo/Professor, Department of Economics, Myongji University: Apart from industries with poor delivery capabilities, there is an aspect of accelerating industries that can deliver better lives.] In



order to increase the number of beneficiaries, first settle a certain amount and settle the coronavirus. Approaches such as introducing a prepayment system that can be used when the situation improves are also necessary.



(Video coverage: Jung Seong-hwa·Kim Min-cheol, Video editing: Park Jin-hoon)