<Anchor> In the
metropolitan area, the second stage of social distancing has been implemented from today (15th).
The opening hours of restaurants and cafes have been extended by one hour from 9 pm to 10 pm, and entertainment facilities can be opened until 10 pm if the quarantine rules are followed.
However, measures that prevent more than 5 people from gathering will continue.
Let’s connect on-site reporters.
Reporter Jeon Yeon-nam, the closing time of the shops has been delayed by an hour.
Was the atmosphere a little different from before?
<Reporter>
Yes, I am in Hongdae Street.
Usually Monday this place is very busy, but today is the first day of the relaxed social distancing, so there are quite a few citizens who visited Hongdae Street.
In the case of restaurants and cafes, where customers were accepted and opened only until 9pm.
It is now available until 10pm, an hour longer.
The time is now at 8 pm.
In the past, people in the store would have finished their seats and prepared to go out. Today, you can still see many customers still eating and chatting in the store.
<Anchor>
Then, from the point of view of the store owners, I wonder if it would be helpful to be able to do business for an hour, but what is the response of the site?
<Reporter>
There were many merchants expressing anticipation that they would be able to open an hour more during the evening when sales were concentrated.
However, there were also many opinions that it was unfortunate between bars and entertainment bars.
[Jeong Hyun-seong/Amusement room management staff: I heard that a lot of people came today with an hour longer, more than usual.
(Sales in the future) I think it will get better.]
[Nak-Jun Jung/Bar President: It's not a feeling that it's definitely not enough to live and fill.
There's no difference between 9 o'clock and 10 o'clock, but it doesn't help us at all, so I wonder why I'm just increasing this.
.] It was said that the
so-called secondary business owners, such as pubs and pubs, were unable to expect meaningful changes due to the ease of 10 o'clock business hours.
There is an atmosphere of reluctance to meet in the evening, and the situation is difficult to improve significantly due to the nature of the business where customers flock after 9pm.
Most of the business owners expressed their willingness to actively participate in the need to prevent further spread of corona by carefully following key quarantine rules, such as installing partitions between tables.
(Video coverage: Choi Woong Choi, video editing: Wonhee Won)