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Seoul, the number of confirmed cases is following at department stores where people come and go. Following the Hyundai Department Store, patients are continuing to come out from other department stores in the city, and as a result of the coverage, it was also seen that they did not follow the quarantine rules well in various places. The department store union called for preemptive inspections of all employees and reduced hours of operation.



Correspondent Han Ji-yeon.



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The Hyundai Department Store Trade Center branch, where 133 cumulative confirmed cases have been

reported

so far.



We reopened our doors a week after business suspension, but we have strengthened quarantine measures.



[QR (code) check and hand disinfection, please.] In addition to



body temperature check,

you have

to take a QR code to enter.



However, most department stores still do not properly log visitors.



At The Hyundai in Yeouido, two employees were confirmed, and in Apgujeong Galleria, three additional confirmed cases were also confirmed.



[Hyundai Department Store official: Department stores, so in distribution facilities (the place to take QR codes), there is only the Trade Center branch so far.]



The Hyundai has closed only the stores on the second basement floor where the confirmed cases occurred, and the other floors are still operating.



[Employees of other stores at The Hyundai: We are also worried, but we also continue to sanitize our hands.]



Recently, as there have been a number of confirmed cases in the department store, customers have stopped visiting.



[Shinsegae Department Store Food Hall Staff: I think a lot of customers don't come out because I told you to be careful about confirmed patients.

It started to decrease a little from Monday.]



Even the luxury stores that have been lined up are so quiet that there is not a single person there.




In general, they were wearing masks well, but in the food hall, they still tucked in or took off the mask before the food came out and talked about violating the quarantine rules.




As anxiety grew over the successive confirmed cases, the department store union demanded a preemptive inspection of all employees, including non-regular workers, measures to close all department stores nationwide on weekends, and shortening of department store hours.



(Video coverage: Yoo Dong-hyeok, Kang Dong-cheol, video editing: Lee Seung-hee)