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Karaoke rooms designated as high-risk facilities are banned from businesses despite measures to mitigate social distancing.
As karaoke bars that have not survived the commercial difficulties have closed one after another, the wholesale market is full of karaoke equipment sold at bargain prices.
There is a reporter on the site. Reporter Hong Min-ki!
Yes, even at a glance, there seems to be a lot of karaoke equipment stacked up. Tell us about the situation on the site.
[기자]Yes it is.
This place where I’m listed is a wholesale company that buys and sells karaoke equipment in coin-operated karaoke rooms.
In this warehouse, you can see the karaoke remote control, accompaniment, and stacked speakers.
Looking across the warehouse, you can also see karaoke lights, mic covers, tambourines, and audio equipment like amplifiers.
The warehouse, which has about 80 square meters, is in such a full state that only the passage remains, but there are so many articles that enter, and it is said that it is impossible to receive all of them.
This is because karaoke rooms were designated as prohibited targets to prevent the spread of Corona 19, and people who wanted to open new karaoke rooms were isolated.
Also, as business owners who were hit directly by prolonged social distancing have closed their businesses one after another, the number of people selling used goods is increasing.
Before the Corona 19 crisis, this place bought an average of 10 devices a day, but now it is said that it has multiplied by five to 50 units.
Sales inquiries also received an average of 3 per day last month, but this month it has almost doubled to 6.
So many people want to sell karaoke equipment, but few people want to buy it, so the price of equipment is falling without knowing the end.
The price of 100,000 won per unit has now been reduced to 10,000 won.
Indirectly it can be said that the pain of karaoke is so much.
As a result of a survey on a real estate-related site, entertainment sectors such as karaoke rooms and computer cafes in downtown Seoul showed the biggest drop of more than 10% since the first quarter.
Coin operated karaoke rooms have been banned and launched since last March, and are now closed for nearly 100 days.
General karaoke rooms have also been designated as high-risk facilities since 19 last month and are banned for a month.
Business owners point out that the government’s quarantine measures are not fair.
On the 14th, when the measures to maintain distances in the metropolitan area decreased from step 2.5 to step 2, cafes, restaurants and computer cafes resumed their activities.
Consequently, the government is in the position that the order to suspend the business of high-risk facilities is a measure in accordance with the method of prevention of infectious diseases and cannot guarantee the loss.
However, he said it is policy to provide financial support in the form of disaster grants for these industries.
Anseong-si, Gyeonggi-do, has enabled the activity of about 120 karaoke bars in the city, including coin-operated karaoke rooms, starting at 12:00 am today.
It is a measure in accordance with government guidelines that measures to maintain social distancing in the metropolitan area are in line with the second stage, and quarantine measures can be mitigated at the discretion of the local government.
This is the first case in the metropolitan area, and it is noteworthy if other local governments will follow these measures later.
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