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Self-employed people are complaining of great difficulties as the distance from the metropolitan area has been upgraded to level 4. Some self-employed people predicted that they would hold a large-scale 'one-person vehicle protest' tonight (14th) saying that the government's quarantine measures force excessive sacrifice.



Reporter Ki-tae Kim reports.



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Kim Hyung-oh, who has been running a meat restaurant for 22 years near a department store in Gangnam, Seoul, where the recent cluster infection occurred.



After the 4th step in the metropolitan area, dinner guests dropped sharply, and sales fell to a tenth level.



The ingredients that were secured in advance were piled up in stock.



[Hyung-oh Kim/Self-employed: If you can't sell today, not tomorrow, and not the day after tomorrow, it's all gone. called a vicious cycle. It's hope torture. You have to have hope to do business.]



Self-employed people complain that they have no choice but to reduce their number of employees.



[Convenience store owner: I am in a situation where I have to cut the staff by half and cut labor costs a lot to endure... . Because I have a lot of work to do and my working hours are getting longer (it’s difficult)] The



group infection that caused the pandemic was mainly caused by religious groups, assemblies, and department stores. do.



Some impatient self-employed are taking to the streets tonight.



The National Self-Employed Self-Employed Guard Captain, a union of 22 self-employed groups, foretold a one-person vehicle demonstration in front of the Yeouido National Assembly from 11 pm with 500 vehicles participating.



They demanded that the self-employed change the unequal quarantine rules to ensure goodwill and come up with measures to compensate for losses.



[Sonmuho / South Korea Restaurants Federation of Mutual Cooperation Promotion Director: government measures to force business owners only obligation and it is a big disappointment to Incomplete]



bidaewi sides said they would comply with the hygiene rules, such as do not get off the car, but the police They declared it an illegal demonstration and warned of strict response.



(Video coverage: Kim Hak-mo, video editing: Yoon Tae-ho)