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Two days ago, there was a big fire at Cheongnyangni Agricultural and Fishery Market. 15 stores have been turned to ashes, and all the items stored in advance have been burned before the Lunar New Year, and it is difficult for some stores to even receive compensation. 



Reporter Park Chan-beom visited the site.



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One side of the market entrance collapsed.



There are Chinese cabbages covered with ashes.



You can guess this is a vegetable shop.



This is the Cheongnyangni Agricultural and Fishery Market, which caught fire at dawn that day (19th).



The damaged merchant looks for useful items in the ashes, and



[Damage merchant: It burned all the way down there.]



Most of them are blackened and there is nothing to save.



[Vendor Damaged: Totally burned out.] The



fire spread not only to the outside store but also to the inside through the market driveway.



In this way, the fire access control line is continuous like this.



If you go further, the merchants continue to do business to sell the vegetables they have recovered from the flames.



Even if you gather all the vegetables you can sell, three or four baskets of sesame leaves and lettuce are all you need.



[Damaged Merchant: (Almost) I couldn't get it out of the fire.] The



peppers and eggplants kept in the warehouse also turned to ashes.



More vegetables than usual were brought in ahead of the Lunar New Year, but paprika lost its commercial value because it was soft and smelled like ashes.



[Dal-Soon Lee / Damaged Merchant: But when we look at it, they, and those who live now, are a bit like that.

So we can't tell you.] The



total damage estimated by the merchants amounts to 1 billion won.



[Lee Jae-deok/Chairman of the Cheongnyangni Agricultural and Fisheries Market Merchants: We are actually counting all the items one by one to the merchants...

.]



Five of the 15 damaged stores are not covered by fire insurance, so it is difficult to expect compensation for the damage.



Police and fire departments have conducted on-site investigations today as well as yesterday, but the cause of the fire has yet to be revealed.



(Video coverage: Yang Doo-won, video editing: Yoon Tae-ho)