<Anchor> As the



distance has been strengthened to the highest level, there are growing calls to revise the second supplementary budget. According to the current budget, the compensation for small business owners is about 250,000 won a month, but it seems insufficient to support small business owners who are hit directly by the 4th stage upgrade.



This is reporter Jang Hoon-kyung.



<Reporter>



Sang-chae Jung, who has been running a restaurant for 13 years.



There are a lot of worries ahead of the 4th stage of social distancing next week.



First of all, in order to reduce labor costs, we have five employees go to work in shifts, but I am worried whether this alone will overcome the hurdle.



[Jang Sang-chae/restaurant owner: It is the same as saying that 2 people (limited) are not allowed to operate. If it goes like this, I think (sales) will decrease by more than 50%.]



Bars with a lot of customers mainly at night are more crowded.



[Lee Hyun-seo / Wine bar owner: I knew that (the business limit) would be extended to 12 pm, so I was preparing to hire more people or staff, but I am thinking that I will lose money.] No



gatherings or operating hours with 4 steps of distancing There are 770,000 businesses subject to restrictions.



The government announced that it would compensate for losses in accordance with the Loss Compensation Act enacted earlier this month, but the actual situation is not so simple.



The current government's second supplementary budget was created on the premise that the Corona situation would improve.



A total of 12.4 trillion won was prepared to stimulate consumption, including 10.4 trillion won in national subsidies for the bottom 80% of the total 33 trillion won.



On the other hand, the compensation for loss of small business owners is only about 600 billion won for three months.



Divided by the number of target businesses, it is only about 250,000 won per month.



[Cha Nam-soo / Head of Policy and Public Relations of the Federation of Small Businesses: When the conditions for external activities are met, the effect will be realized (promoting consumption). Wouldn't it be necessary to change the budget supplementary budget when the number of confirmed cases



reaches

1,000?] With

voices from the political circles

calling for a change

in the supplementary budget budget, it is highly likely that the supplementary budget bill will be redesigned in the National Assembly discussion next week.



(Video coverage: Seo Jin-ho, Video editing: Park Soo-seon)