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Among PC cafe owners who have been unable to open their doors for more than 15 days because of the corona, there are voices saying that it is difficult to pay the store rent because they cannot do business.
In this situation, there are even crimes in which people enter a closed PC room and steal computers or expensive parts.
Reporter Park Jae-hyun covered it.
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A PC room in Cheonan, Chungnam.
Someone shines a flashlight on the inside of the PC room that is off.
After a while, the two men opened the broken glass door and entered.
I casually walk around the PC room, take out a pocket knife, disassemble the computer, and take out the parts.
It took only 10 minutes to steal five major parts of a PC, worth 5 million won.
[Cheonan PC room owner: Our PC room is open 24 hours a day, so if it was normal, there was nothing to be stolen, but I always went and checked it twice a day. .] On the
30th of last month, a similar incident occurred in Guri, Gyeonggi Province.
Two men came in, destroyed the entrance with stones, and ran away by stealing 200,000 won in cash and two PCs from the counter.
It has been classified as a high-risk facility in the aftermath of the corona and has been unable to operate for more than 15 days, but theft was also damaged.
[Guri PC room owner: How do I repay my rent or loan because I couldn't do business? I lost money while I was thinking about this... It's ridiculous.]
Police are pursuing suspects in both cases, assuming that they committed the crime in order to be able to easily cash out computer parts such as graphics cards, RAM, and hard disks in the used market.
While Chungcheongnam-do approved the reopening of PC cafes from today (9th) afternoon, the Countermeasure Committee, where PC cafe companies gathered, visited the National Assembly and requested that PC cafes be excluded from high-risk facilities.
(Video coverage: 1st, Video editing: Oh Noyoung)