Ha-neul Choi, 30, has run a soup restaurant in a university district for the second year.

Yesterday morning, Haneul checked the bankbook balance, and it became dark in front of her eyes.

The 4 insurance premiums overdue due to the difficult situation of the store due to the Corona situation were around 5 million won, because the remaining about 400,000 won in the account was all withdrawn.

If you want to run a restaurant right away, you need to pay for food materials.

A few days ago, I was going to pay the overdue amount in installments, but all the money was gone.


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a realistic point of view, to survive the Lunar New Year holiday, we had to have that money, 400,000 won.

I just thought it was the end.



Confused, Mr. Haneul called the Health Insurance Corporation.

It is said that he did not expect to get his money back, but simply because he wanted to know the reason why he escaped like this.


I borrowed all the money I could borrow around me.

There was no place to reach out.

I put everything down, but I wanted to double check, so I called with the intention of knowing or dying.


The employee of the National Health Insurance Corporation, who was connected to the phone, had a father-like voice, even as Haneul could guess.

To Mr. Haneul, who said 'I don't want to live anymore', the employee cried out, 'Why do you think that young people should live?'

As I read through the seeds of heaven, trying to find a way.

Even after determining that there was no way the company could help, the employee did not give up.

It was meant to help out with private money.


He must have had a lot of complaining people like me.

As if I had put everything down, he told me to 'live'.

'I'll personally send you money, so please live', 'You can pay it back later, so run the (store)'.

There I couldn't speak.

I'm a person who doesn't really cry, but the tears don't stop.


The money that went into Mr. Haneul's account was 420,000 won, and the money that went out was the same.



It's a fear every day.

The guests may or may not come today, but they are holding on with only one hope to try.

But I was in a situation where I couldn’t do anything because I had no money so I couldn’t have hope itself, and literally a miracle happened.


Haneul expressed the good deeds sent by an unfamiliar adult.




I called the employee and asked directly.

It is true that he sent the money, but he said that he did not want to be known because it was done personally.

I also thought deeply about writing the article.

In particular, I was most moved by the fact that even if I did a good deed because of a misunderstanding, I would feel a great burden from the eyes of the people around me.

I was also worried that there would be people who personally appealed to me after reading the article.



However, I thought that the 420,000 won he gave to the 30-year-old boss, who even thought to the extreme because he didn’t have the money to pay for food right away, was probably more than 40 million won, or even saved his life, so I decided to introduce it this way. I made up my mind.

Instead, we had no choice but to introduce the employee as anonymously as possible so that the identity of the employee was not revealed.




As the industry team covers, I often meet small business owners and self-employed people who have been pushed to a dead end due to the prolonged COVID-19 situation.

Their sighs are getting deeper day by day, so it's always a pity.

The government supports them with various subsidies and loan policies.

However, this alone does not really warm their hearts.

As Mr. Haneul said, rather than a world where 'I'll give you this, let's take care of it for now', a world where there are many comforting hands like this, 'Let's live together' may be more desperate for our small business owners.