<Anchor> The
government's quarantine guidelines limiting the business hours of restaurants and cafes to 9 p.m. are growing protests from self-employed people. A large cafe rejected this government policy and said it would be open 24 hours. Our reporter is out on the spot.
Reporter Han So-hee, the store should close in 50 minutes, but after that, do you mean that the store will continue to operate?
<Reporter>
I'm at a cafe that said it was open 24 hours.
A little later, at 9 o'clock, it can't be open as usual, but in the case of this cafe, they keep receiving customers with the phrase 'open as normal'.
The cafe was originally open 24 hours, but it is said that sales were the highest after 9 pm.
However, after failing to operate properly for the past year, the accumulated loss reached 1 billion won and the store closed, so I couldn't bear it any longer. Let's hear the interview with the CEO first.
[Café CEO: Loan is a loan, debentures are all bonds, borrowed from acquaintances (), there is no longer any possibility, and interest on more than 1 billion won is paid several hundred every day. It cannot be filled.]
The cafe said it would open 5 out of 14 directly-managed stores 24 hours a day, but today (21st) some branches were accused of violating the Infectious Disease Prevention and Management Act, so some branches reduced their business hours again to 9:00. .
<Anchor>
So, among the self-employed, there was a reaction to whether it would be so, and there was a voice that we should protect it.
Also, are self-employed people planning to hold a large gathering in the city center tomorrow?
<Reporter> The
National Emergency Response Committee for the Self-Employed announced a large-scale rally near Gwanghwamun in Seoul tomorrow afternoon.
This is to inform people about the injustice of quarantine passes and business hours restrictions.
Although it was reported that 299 people were reported according to the number of allowed assemblies, there is a possibility that more people will gather, so the Seoul Metropolitan Government and the police are preparing to respond.
Another self-employed group has announced a collective closure.
(Video coverage: Kim Hyun-sang, Cho Chang-hyun, video editing: Kim Jong-mi)