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China, which has a strong quarantine policy, 20 million people, or about 90% of the residents of Beijing, the capital, have been tested for coronavirus three times.

Except for the suburbs, it is virtually all testing, and although there have been about 100 people infected in the last few days, they will take strong preemptive measures before it spreads further.

In Shanghai, which has already entered the 30th day of lockdown, the number of new infections reached 17,000 a day, showing no sign of improvement.

In particular, such long-term lockdown measures are having a shock to the global economy and are disrupting the production of Korean companies.



Reporter Hoon-Kyung Jang reports.



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auto industry was hit directly by the Shanghai lockdown.



Usually 30,000 parts are required per vehicle, but the supply of airbag control units and ACUs procured from China is blocked.



Gwangju Global Motors, which produces Hyundai Motor's Casper, stopped operating its plant for four days last week, and Hyundai Motor also partially reduced the operation of its second plant in Ulsan from the 18th.



It is known that production of about 1,200 units has been disrupted in the past week alone.



GM Korea's Bupyeong Plant 1 has cut its utilization rate by half since this month as it failed to receive brake system parts from China on time.



[Jeong Man-gi / President of Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association: Orders are being pushed back, but production is not keeping up. It is not only in Korea, but also a global problem (difficulty in supply and demand for vehicle semiconductors).



The situation is even worse for companies with factories in Shanghai.



Amorepacific's Shanghai plant, which produces 100 million cosmetics a year, has been shutting down since this month.



Nongshim's Shanghai factory, which produces 350 million ramen a year, was also suspended from operation on the 28th of last month, but only recently partially resumed.

[Lee Jae-su / Head of the Asia-Pacific Cooperation Team at the Federation of Korean Industries: As long as the zero- coronavirus



policy of the Chinese government is maintained, the lockdown in new regions is likely to expand and there is a high risk of prolonging the logistical disruption.]



There is growing concern that stagflation, which means inflation in the midst of an economic downturn, will become a reality.



(Video editing: Lee Seung-yeol)