<Anchor> This
is a friendly economic time. Today (the 5th), I will be with reporter Han Ji-yeon. I heard that there are a lot of apps that run errands for you lately?
<Reporter>
Yes, when I searched the Play Store, there were more than 10. I was wondering what kind of app it was and I installed it once, and it really did everything special.
From delivery and grocery shopping to cleaning and housework. You can ask to bathe your cat, take your pet for a walk, as well as catch bugs and mice.
I looked at the difference between delivery apps and delivery apps, and delivery apps can only deliver in the area where I am. However, the errand app said that no matter the distance, if the price is right, they will deliver.
A close acquaintance ordered delivery from a Samgyetang restaurant in Jongno to Gamnam using an errand app, and it is said that the delivery cost alone cost close to 30,000 won. It's almost the same price as samgyetang.
As shown on the screen, the locations of helpers who will run errands are displayed in various places around me on the app map.
But why are there so many errands apps, and above all, there are many single-person households. Currently, one-third of all households in Korea are one-person households.
If you forget important documents and go to work, your family usually brings them, but you have to ask someone for single-person households. In this case, you need an errand app.
In addition, it is said that the demand for errands is increasing due to the preference for 'non-face-to-face' due to Corona. The fact that there are so many
<Anchor>
apps means that there are a lot of users. (An errand agency app analyzed the 300,000 errands received last year. Which one do you think came out the most?) Well, I guess there must have been a lot of delivery.
<Reporter>
Yes, that's right. Also, because of the corona, the demand for non-face-to-face is increasing. Delivery and grocery shopping accounted for the most at 41%. Cleaning and housework were the next most common with 20%, and this company analyzed that the increase was due to the increase in single-person households.
I had to do what my mother, father, or my spouse did for me, but it was difficult, so I had a company do it. And this part was a little interesting, and 8% and 4%, respectively, of companions and queuing, wondering if it is really possible to ask for such a thing.
And I think I'll need this one, because there was a moth the size of a palm on the floor of a narrow hallway in the past, so I couldn't get through for 30 minutes and confronted the moth. I wish I had known about this app back then. 'Catching bugs' also accounted for 2%, or 6,000 cases.
<Anchor>
You are commissioned in a variety of fields. However, it seems that there are people who have a certain job as an errand assistant, what I am curious about here.
<Reporter>
You can think of it a bit similar to the riders who work at delivery companies. It is a method of accepting a call when a call appears on the app while waiting.
There are many people who do chores from time to time, but one errand app said that the number of helpers exceeded 50,000 within six months of its release.
However, the difference from delivery apps is that the errand commission is a 'bidding' method. The assistant has to accept the amount suggested by the user, but there is no assistant who wants to do the work for that amount.
For example, I bet 5,000 won to catch cockroaches, but no one accepts. In this case, the user can increase the amount up to 6,000 won, 7,000 won, or 10,000 won. The more diligent you are, the more money you will make. It is said that there are cases where they made up to 5 million won in a month.
A worker who is not affiliated with a specific company and wants to freely do what he wants for as long as he wants is called a 'gig worker' by using the word 'gig' to mean 'temporary work'.
Before Corona, it was about 280 trillion won, but it has grown to over 100 trillion won by last year.
It is expected to exceed 500 trillion won next year.
A consulting firm estimates that by 2025, this market will add up to 2% of global GDP, or $2.7 trillion.