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All of the masks are difficult, but it is especially difficult to obtain children's masks. It is very difficult to obtain a small size because public masks are also given priority to adults.

Reporter Kang Cheong-wan looked around the scene.

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Although the 5-part mask has been implemented, it is difficult to find small masks for children in pharmacies.

[(Are there any small ones?) There is no size. Only large.]

The mother who held the child's hand and visited the pharmacy according to the birth year turns.

[Parents: (Mask) There are no kids. Eight-year-olds are very important when they go to elementary school, but they don't have any children.]

Other pharmacies

[Pharmacist: Nothing came in. So far. So we can't see. I'm very frustrated when the kids come.]

Hanaro Mart

[Hanaro Mart staff: There are no children.]

The situation is the same.

[Kim Sun-young / Gangwon Wonju-si: I went to the pharmacy exactly 12 places today. However, the children's mask was not worn at all. I went to the store for over 20 days and I didn't buy a single one. One piece, really.]

I tried to put on an adult mask, but to no avail.

[Kim Sun-young / Gangwon Wonju-si: This (mask) itself is large, so it doesn't hang at all. It falls like this.]

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (KFDA) said that it does not determine or determine the number of small masks among public masks.

[Food and drug officials: 10% for children, 80% for adults, 70%, not for this. (Production) is tailored to the competency of the company. ((Supply also) Do it autonomously?) Yes, right.]

As a result, small masks with relatively low demand are not being supplied properly, and supply and demand imbalances are everywhere.

[Pharmacist: We've only come in the medium size, and we have never entered the small size. There is no choice. Public masks are distributed in the country… ]

A careful policy for securing and supplying small masks is also required.

(Video coverage: Dong-Chul Kang, Video editing: Seung-Hee Lee)