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There are soup kitchens that provide a warm meal for neighbors in need.
Although we prepared food and gifts during this Lunar New Year holiday, it is difficult to set the table as prices rise and donations decrease.
Reporter Park Se-won covered the scene.
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A soup kitchen in Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul.
There was a long line from the morning for the food distribution starting at 11:00 am.
About 600 people visit this soup kitchen every day, and residents of the small-town neighborhood visit to get their meals.
We prepared a snack package for the holiday in advance.
[Park In-soo/Suwon, Gyeonggi: I live alone like this, so I live a lonely life.
Rice cake soup or something like that is given as a gift here, so then you should go home and boil it and eat it even if you put it in ramen
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[Choi Il-do/CEO of DA-IL Community: (In front of the cafeteria) There are more than 50 nameless angels who bring bags of bean sprouts every day.]
This soup kitchen in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul is running out of rice cake soup right now.
Every holiday, they prepare food with sponsored items such as rice cakes and meat, but they say donations have decreased noticeably compared to last year's Lunar New Year.
[Park Kyung-ok/General Secretary of Thomas's House: This time, the refrigerator is completely empty.
You can eat about 300 minutes when this place is full.
I wonder if there should be twice as much.]
A few days ago, someone left a box of rice cakes, and at least I was able to cook a few more bowls of rice cake soup.
The vulnerable, who have no place to go during the holiday season, desperately need a warm meal from a soup kitchen, but the reality is getting tougher.
(Video coverage: Choi Dae-woong, video editing: Choi Hye-young)