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Due to Corona 19, self-employed and small business owners have been closed and closed one after another.

Even if they want to close the store, they often endure in debt due to one or another problem.



Reporter Kim Hee-nam heard their story.



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Ahn Seong-hoon, who ran a rice ball restaurant in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do, visited the tax office.



I have been working with my mother for the past three years without holidays or holidays, but it took less than 10 minutes to report business closure.



[It was processed.

You can file one more tax return by the 25th of next month.

(Is it all over?) All done.

(So ​​soon.)] Since



half a year ago, there have been many times when you can't pay a monthly rent of 2.5 million won even after sending out two employees.



[Ahn Seong-hun/Rice meal house closed: It is cheap and delicious for students.

It went so well, but because of Corona 19, students couldn't go to school.]



After participating in the Han Trot contest, it seemed to gain popularity for a while and sales seemed to increase, but in the end, the door of the restaurant was closed with 35 million won.



Jin Yong-soo, who was introduced to the story of a sharp drop in beauty salon sales to 1/3 after the corona through SBS News in May last year.



It was on the street that I met him again after nine months.



[Because there are no customers, the beauty salon is only open on weekends.

(What's this?) I'm working as a delivery agent now.] It means that I work on



food delivery on weekdays and only open the beauty salon on holidays.



[Jin Yong-soo / hair salon director, food delivery'Two Job': If you open a hair salon, you can



assume

that it usually costs more than 100 million won, but we don't pay that amount and we don't go out even though we've released the shop.]

Let alone your rights, the cost of demolition is not high.



There are many people who are unable to close their business and have no choice but to endure by crying and eating mustard, and Lee Gwang-pyo, who runs a kids cafe, is one of them.



[Lee Gwang-pyo/Kids Cafe Operation: There is a loan left, but it was received again after the corona burst.

I got a loan of 30 million won, and then I got a second small business loan of 20 million won, so I was sitting in a pile of debt.]



I tried to work somehow and

got

into an accident where my toe broke.



[Lee Gwang-pyo/Kids Cafe Operation: I went to the plating factory.

It was my first time doing it.

There is a machine door, but the lid went over and I just pounded my foot.

Fractured.] The



size of self-employed loans has increased by 100 trillion won after 9 months of the coronavirus outbreak.



[Lee Jeong-hee/Professor of Economics at Chung-Ang University: There are over 6 million self-employed people.

Our employment problems can become very serious if we say that the self-employed base is collapsed and we are unable to solve jobs.]



At a recent debate, criticism was also raised that the current distancing guidelines are forcing self-employed people to sacrifice.



Increasingly, self-employed people, who are limited by continued business restrictions, are engaged in collective action.



[Allow until midnight.] With the



prolonged coronavirus outbreak, self-employed people are pushed to the limit, and it is difficult to see how long the daily life of scrapping with increasing debt will continue.



(Video coverage: Park Seung-won)