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There are products that have been discontinued as people are flocking to convenience stores to buy smart watches these days. The news that they can buy it with disaster aid is mainly for young people to buy it, but there is also some point out whether this is correct for the original purpose of the disaster aid to help the class affected by the corona virus.



Reporter Han Ji-yeon focused on the coverage.



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disaster relief payment started, some convenience stores sent out advertisements saying that they are selling wireless earphones or smart watches at the 'lowest price on the Internet'.



A shortage of orders occurred as the number of orders in their 20s and 30s, where there was no proper place to use the subsidy, increased.



In the Internet community and SNS, there were also articles sharing information about convenience stores selling or purchasing Galaxy Watch 4 as a disaster fund.



Convenience stores eventually stopped selling due to supply shortages.



[E-Mart 24 clerk: (Galaxy Watch 4 is there now?) It has stopped ordering now. Because there were too many people who pre-ordered it, it ended prematurely.]



Sales of the Galaxy Watch 4 started at some convenience stores this month, but the demand surged as news spread that it could be purchased with disaster relief funds.



[GS25 Clerk: (Is this a product you sold before the disaster relief fund?) Yes, yes. It seems that this suddenly ran out. A lot of the subsidy came out and a lot of people buy it with it.]



Some critics are coming out that only large corporations are being dubbed as disaster aid to help small business owners.



[Lee Eun-hee/Professor, Department of Consumer Affairs, Inha University: It's called a 'disaster' subsidy. The government should induce spending to meet the purpose, and it would have been nice if there were restrictions on items or such measures in advance.]



Convenience store owners are also small business owners, and there is an objection that it is not okay to induce consumption of young people and single households. After the controversy, GS25 announced that it had stopped selling Samsung Electronics products.



(Video editing: Seungjin Lee, VJ: Hyunwoo Park)