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Early this morning (the 9th), self-employed people drove out. They honked their car horns and protested the measures to keep distance.



Reporter Chan-geun Park met why restaurant and bar owners went out on the streets.



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Early this morning, there was a long line of cars with emergency lights on on Olympic Boulevard.



Self-employed people sometimes honk their car horns to a certain beat, meaning 'SOS signal'.



Self-employed people who could not stand it due to the prolonged corona measures ran out into the streets.



In the middle of the night, why did they have to go out on the street?



[Lee Ki-bong/Self-Employed: (How did you come out today?) You came out angry.]



I looked into the situation more closely.



In the evening, there is only one boss and one customer table in the spacious restaurant.



There are many days when no sales are recorded because there are no customers all day.



[Lee Gi-bong / Self-employed: I did something (loan) about 90 million won. I have to start a business and pay back the money, but I don't think I'll be able to get out of the loan anymore. If that's the case, you'll have to go bankrupt, bankrupt. I can't pay it back, what should I do?] The



fourth stage of social distancing is what self-employed people mainly complain about. How effective was this measure?



In a recent study, an analysis showed that the social distancing policy had the effect of reducing the amount of movement in the early stages of the corona epidemic, but it is no longer effective now that the 4th stage is applied after being repeated several times.



It has been a long time since the difficulties of the self-employed appeared in numbers.



The situation worsened as the period of not making money properly while tightening, loosening, and repeating business hours according to the steps of social distancing, made the situation worse and only the debt increased like a snowball.



Corona loan support, such as extension of maturity and deferment of interest payment, will be phased out, and interest rates are becoming more expensive as interest rates rise, making it even more difficult to pay off debt.



There are also concerns that if the debt problem becomes serious, it could lead to insolvency of the financial sector.



[Cha Nam-soo/Director of Policy and Public Relations of the Federation of Small Businesses: It is voluntary that small business owners, the main economic agents, will take measures to prevent (infection) themselves. (If you violate the quarantine rules) I will take responsibility for it proudly. Whether it is a fine or a fine, I will receive even more punishment.] In



a situation where Corona is permanently changing our daily lives, sophisticated quarantine measures are urgently needed instead of asking us to endure a little longer.



(Video coverage: Kim Se-kyung, Kim Tae-hoon, video editing: Kim Cho-a, CG: Hong Seong-yong, Choi Jae-young, Sung Jae-eun, Jeong Si-won, Ahn Ji-hyun)