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Entertainment bars have already been banned from the second stage of social distancing. But we got reports that some taverns were secretly opening their doors in other places and receiving customers. The business was going well enough to have to wait to enter the store, but most of them weren't wearing masks in narrow places.

Reporter Min Kyung-ho covered the report.

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A massage parlor in Gangnam-gu, Seoul on a weekend night.

As you enter the building, people who don't wear masks lump together and sit and wait for their turn.

They look like people who came to get a massage, but they are actually people who visited an entertainment bar.

[Employee of entertainment bar: The karma is karaoke. Karaoke room is now a dangerous facility and cannot be opened. A massage room is possible.]

After the second step of social distancing, entertainment bars became unavailable, and some businesses rented massage parlors classified as health care businesses to conduct illegal business.

Not to mention that you don't wear a mask properly, and the identity verification of the visitor is foolish.

[Employee of entertainment bar: Just as a lie (you can do it.) Just do nothing. Now, everything here, everything is false (it was written.)]

There are many people who use it, so you have to wait for a while.

[Attendant at the entertainment bar: You should watch the cafe (waiting time) for about 20 minutes, and then, in the case of karaoke, about 30 minutes (you have to wait.)]

There are also words suggesting prostitution.

[Employee of entertainment bar: Everyone is in'room'. Have fun drinking for an hour and go to XX for 30-40 minutes... .] About

10 female employees move around in tight, enclosed rooms without masks.


It is known that there are at least six businesses in the Gangnam area of ​​Seoul alone that are illegally operated in this way.

Several reports have been filed with the actual police, but no cases have been caught.

[Police officials: It is difficult to crack down when illegal business activities are detected at the site. So, in the long term, I have no choice but to go through the planning crackdown.] It

is because I receive acquaintances through acquaintances, and if the police mobilizes, I am cheating as if I was just doing a massage business.

[Attendant at the entertainment bar: The hyungs didn't come here today to drink, but they came to get a 10 million won massage for the blind, because

they were stiff.] At this time, when everyone gives up their daily routine and has a hard fight with Corona 19, just make money, and only me is fun. Public safety is threatened by some misconceptions that if it is enough to stop.

(Video editing: Wonhee Won)