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biggest shopping festival, Korea Sale Festa, started at the same time as daily life was restored.
Today (6th) the shopping street was quite crowded, but reporter Jeon Yeon-nam looked around to see if consumer sentiment could be revived.
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A department store in Seoul is crowded with shoppers on the first weekend after the recovery of daily life begins.
We are busy choosing items from various events with big discounts ahead.
[Park Min-jung / Seodaemun-gu, Seoul: It seems that other people are shopping comfortably like watching… There are a lot of people, and I think they are buying one more thing they don't want to buy.] On
the 1st, the largest shopping festival in Korea, 'Korea Sale Festa', started, and the retail industry is trying hard to revive consumer sentiment, which has been contracted for a long time due to Corona 19.
Department stores have been lively for a long time, but the number of companies participating in this year's Korea Sale Festa is about 2,000, the highest ever.
The government has also taken steps to revive domestic consumption.
Nine consumption coupons worth 230 billion won were issued, which are expected to be used in earnest from this month.
Even in revitalizing this all-round domestic demand, there is an ambush.
Atomic ash prices soared and continued to stimulate consumer prices.
[Bakyoungbeom / Hansung University economics professor. Prices are if, because the rising trend (consumed earlier books) give an adverse effect to consumer sentiment when rising consumer prices are likely to have a negative impact on domestic demand;
12 coming to catch water Starting today, the fuel tax will be temporarily reduced by 20%.
Although the government is planning to induce directly-operated gas stations and others to immediately lower the price of oil by the amount of the fuel tax cut, privately owned gas stations have no way to force it, so it is expected that the price will be lowered only at the end of this month.
(Video coverage: Kim Se-kyung, video editing: Lee So-young)