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so-called splash-blocking mask, which is thin and light and prevents droplets, has been sold only online for the first time. I had to wait after receiving the number tag from the morning so I could barely buy it. Starting tomorrow, you can buy it at some convenience stores.

Reporter Kim Hyeong-rae was covered.

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News of the sale of masks to prevent splashing attracted people to the hypermarket.

The sales time was from 2 pm, but the store was in a hurry to issue a number tag as the long lines lined up from the morning.

Mask Buyer: was seeping waited 30 minutes outside come in 9:30 standing waiting until you open the door at 10 o'clock. -

Mask Buyer: ACT Now, not buy Look waited for over an hour -

the rear pm dwaeseoya received a number ticket 20 500-block splash masks were available for each box.

The 2,000 boxes prepared at 20 large supermarkets were quickly opened.


[Hwang Young-hee/Seongdong-gu, Seoul: It's less sweaty, so it's not thick, so it's thin and cool.] One

late guest shook.

[Jae-man Jung/Jung-gu, Seoul: So the man came to go and... Aye, I was all lined up at 10 in the morning, 100 people.] After the

online, there was a shortage in offline stores, but the Food and Drug Administration said there is no plan to supply a mask to protect the droplets as a public mask.

[Yang Jin-young/Deputy Director of Food and Drug Safety: Given the reality that the production volume is not increasing, it would be better to distribute this part freely in the private sector rather than securing it as a public mask… .] From

tomorrow, it will also be sold through some convenience stores.

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (KFDA) predicted that by the end of this month, daily production will increase to more than 1 million units as 35 companies are in production.

(Video coverage: Donghyuk Lee, Mincheol Kim, video editing: Hojin Kim)  

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