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the self-employed who could not do business properly at the beginning of the year-end and New Years due to prolonged social distancing, the government has introduced additional support measures. Before the Lunar New Year holiday, 5 million won is paid first, and then settled later. The amount of this is small, but there were also voices like this.



This is reporter Bae Jun-woo.



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government has come up with a 'pre-payment, post-settlement' method of compensation for losses.



The target is 547,000 small business owners, and 5 million won in loss compensation is provided for the fourth quarter of last year and the first quarter of this year.



The goal is to receive applications from the middle of this month and complete the payment of compensation before the Lunar New Year holiday in February.



It is possible to receive it in conjunction with the 1 million won quarantine subsidy that is being paid to 3.2 million people.



Since the so-called 'With Corona' was implemented in November of last year, the business restriction period was not long in the fourth quarter, so the number of support recipients decreased by about 300,000 from the 800,000 in the third quarter.



The problem is 'post-settlement'.



If the loss is less than 5 million won and you have to pay back part of it, the government plans to switch to a loan with a low interest rate of 1%.



[Yoo Deok-hyeon/Restaurant Management: In the end, it's just fun to play with small business owners. This cannot be. You can think of it as an irregular loan.]



There are still voices that the compensation amount is insufficient at a time when the business of the end of the year and the New Year has to be practically closed.



[Restaurant operation: (sales due to social distancing) is 1/3 different.

Right now, I earn only about 100,000 won (a day) and close with almost one or two tables of customers.]



Small business groups claim 100% compensation for losses and relax business hours and number of people restrictions, and even prepare for group actions such as group closures are doing