<Anchor> In accordance with the



COVID-19 special quarantine measures, all restaurants nationwide cannot receive meals after 9:00 p.m. until January 3, and even now, late-night entertainment facilities are open to normal operation in some areas, causing a controversy over equity.



Reporter Cho Jae-geun covered it.



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A restaurant in Sokcho, Gangwon-do, near 9:00 p.m., the restaurants actually close their business for the day.



This is because, due to the special quarantine measures during the year-end and New Year holidays, restaurants nationwide cannot receive meals after 9pm.



Places with few delivery and packaging customers are closed at all, and the restaurant streets soon turn into darkness.



[Restaurant owner: It is difficult to deliver a meat restaurant.

There is a difference in taste between grilling on the spot and grilling and taking it.] At the



same time, the streets of nearby entertainment bars are different.



Each tavern is lit brightly and receives guests.



When I entered, the sound of music was loud in the hall, and about 10 guests drank and even danced.



[President of entertainment business: Honestly, how many times have you caught (corona) at an entertainment business?

Even though there are so many (stores), it doesn't take that much.] The paradox that people do



n't receive at restaurants, but bar guests receive is because the government guidelines and local governments' distancing steps are at odds.



In addition to the absence of entertainment facilities due to the government's special measures, there are no restrictions on grouping of entertainment facilities in Gangwon-do, as the distance between Sokcho, Yangyang and Goseong is 1.5 steps.



[Restaurant owner: It's okay to eat Western liquor in the same (closed) space, and feel like I shouldn't eat soju?

Shouldn't the same rules be applied?]



Despite complaints from restaurants, Gangwon-do is struggling to raise its distance.



[Gangwon officials: do not raise a batch of step 2, because express dissent in some counties revisiting the process according to the counties discretion (decided)



In the end, six counties of only step 2, putting away Sokcho It is expected that the controversy over equity will continue.



(Video coverage: Heo Chun)