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Often, smoking booths, narrow shape of the closed street. Many people get stuck and take off their masks and smoke, but there are not many places where smoking booths are closed despite these concerns.

Reporter Im Tae-woo covered.

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is a smoking booth near the Yeouido Stock Exchange in Seoul.

Dozens of people smoke their masks under the chin or take off and smoke together.

The 2m distance, which is the range of splash infection, is not observed.

[Smoker: I have to take off the mask, so it's close to each other, but I'm anxious about that.]It is also argued that, unlike the closed booth, which is blocked from all sides except for the entrance door, the open type with half the booth is safe to keep away.

The medical community warns of the danger of infection in smoking booths.

The smoker is a high-risk corona19, and the virus can get into the smoke particles from the mouth.

[Lee Seong-gyu / Director of the National Non-Smoking Support Center: liquid type electronic cigarette, cigarette type electronic cigarette. The aerosol comes out of these two products. There have been a lot of talks that the aerosol infection is presumed to have occurred in the indoor space.]

Michuhol-gu and Bupyeong-gu, Incheon closed the smoking booth at all, but Seoul has not yet closed.

[Seoul Jung-gu Office Official: (When the smoking booth is closed) People who smoke are nowhere to go. Just smoking on the street. Spitting on the streets and spitting on the streets are more of a problem.]

'Balloon effect' is claimed, but experts say that closed smoking booths, which are difficult to keep in structure, should be reviewed to prevent infection.

(Video coverage: Hwang In-seok, Video editing: Jang Hyun-gi, VJ: Hyung-jin Kim)