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An absurd notice was delivered to the self-employed who received the compensation for the corona damage to give the compensation again.

It is because the Ministry of SMEs and Startups entered the wrong number due to a coding error.



This is reporter Im Tae-woo.



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is a children's swimming pool in Seoul.



In the meantime, group classes have been canceled one after another due to government orders, resulting in a cumulative deficit of several hundred million won.



Fortunately, I received 100 million won as a loss compensation in the third quarter of last year and wanted to breathe, but I was recently notified to return 99.9 million won minus 100,000 won.



[Kim Ji-young/Children's Swimming Pool Company Representative: I am preparing all of the employees' salaries, management fees, and rental fees through additional loans...

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The owner of this kids cafe in Gyeonggi-do has to spit out 20 million won out of 25 million won in compensation, but the money he received has already been used up to pay off debt.



[Kim Jung-hoon/Kids Cafe CEO: I received money and paid the delayed monthly rent and management fee.

I was preparing to hold on again and pay some of the losses in the fourth quarter...

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This absurd administration of 'give and take' was due to the fault of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups.



The National Tax Service retrieved the tax data of the self-employed and calculated the compensation, but the program was made incorrectly and entered the wrong number to calculate.



[Small and Medium Business Venture Department official: 'Operating profit' cell (Khan), should have called something like this.

We were supposed to code like that, but that didn't happen.

When I checked, the compensation came out differently because I had called in another cell.]



But later, when I found out about this, a few months passed and I was notified to return the overpaid compensation.



More than 40,000 people were able to vomit out the compensation received in this way.



Although the Ministry of SMEs and Startups said they would get all the money back according to the procedure, they are not apologizing for their mistakes that caused the chaos.