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business of indoor sports facilities such as a gym has been banned for nearly a month, backlash from business owners continues.

A protest meeting was held today (10th) as well, and Busan, at its own discretion, allows indoor sports facilities to be limited from tomorrow.



This is Hong Young-jae.



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Park Hee-seok, who runs a yoga and pilates center in Gunpo, Gyeonggi-do. The center, which once had more than 600 members, has been emptied for more than a month due to a ban on business.



[Park Hee-Seok/President of Yoga Center: It seems like I did half of the business last year and not half of the year.

About half of them.]



Refund applications followed and 11 employees had to find another job.



[Park Hee-seok/CEO of Yoga Center: It costs about 6 million won including the management fee.

That's about it at a fixed cost.

(Loan) I got the maximum amount I could get.

But now I'm using all that too...

.] Although the



government allowed the operation of sports facilities for minors on a conditional basis, facilities mainly used by adults such as gyms are still experiencing difficulties.



This afternoon, a protest rally was held in front of the Democratic Party's company along with Yeouido.



[Kim Seong-woo/President of the Korea Fitness Management Association: It is such a situation where the blood dries up day by day.

The government has not raised it to the third level, and has continued to ban groups of only sports facilities in the third level.]



In the midst of this, Busan City allowed the operation of indoor sports facilities on the condition that the capacity of one person per 8㎡ will be kept from tomorrow.



The quarantine authorities explained that the second stage of social distancing in non-metropolitan areas is the default, but it has been raised to stage 2.5 at the discretion of local governments. Therefore, the authority of local governments can resolve some of the measures related to stage 2.5.



The quarantine authorities said that they are considering both difficulties in living and the risks of quarantine, and are considering whether to ease the ban on the operation of indoor sports facilities nationwide after the reinforced social distancing period ends on the 17th.



(Video coverage: Park Dong-ryul, video editing: Lee Seung-hee)