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On the 26th of last month, small business owners are applying for a desired new fund at the Ilsan-dong-gu office in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do. Hankyung DB
Mr A, who runs a computer café in Daegu, recently called for “new hope for small business owners” but did not receive a penny. The desired new fund for small business owners is for the government to apply for 12 industries, including PC cafes, classified as banned businesses in August, and award 2 million won per store. Mr. A requested a new desired fund after seeing a notice stating that “2 million won will be provided to all PC rooms across the country.” Since then, it has been examined for more than 4 weeks, but was excluded from the application. This is because the PC cafes in Daegu have not stopped working. Mr. A said, “I only heard the announcement that PC cafes are classified as a banned business by groups, and they gave me 2 million won. Said.
“I gave it all to the computer room across the country”
According to related industries, on the 18th, the Small Business Market Promotion Corporation recently reported that it was difficult to provide the desired new fund requested by coffee shop owners in some regions, such as Daegu. This is because “PC cafes are a prohibited business category, but PC cafes in the region continued to operate.”
The Ministry of SMEs and Startups implemented a new financing system to support small companies suffering from Corona 19 in September. It was said that it would invest 3.30 trillion won to help 2.43 million small businesses. The Ministry of SMEs and M&A was divided into general and especially damaged industries. Between them, the group promised to pay 2 million won and 1.5 million won, respectively, regardless of sales, to prohibited and restricted joint ventures classified as specially damaged businesses. Businesses banned by groups included 12 businesses, including computer cafes, singing training centers and entertainment bars, that were imposed a ban on grouping by the Security and Disaster Countermeasures Headquarters in August.
Even in prohibited collective bargains, there were cases where local governments allowed businesses, causing confusion. At the time, Daegu Gangwon and others allowed PC cafes to operate under conditions of observing quarantine rules at the discretion of local governments. Daegu, Gyeongbuk, Gangwon, Jeju, etc. allowed the operation of entertainment bars under the same conditions. The companies in these regions did not actually stop their business, so they were unable to receive 2 million won paid to specially restricted industries.
However, there was no such content in the notices distributed by the Ministry of SMEs and Industry and the Small Business Corporation. It only contains the content that ‘2 million won is provided to 12 industries across the country’. That’s why the small business owners who applied for the desired new fund were confused. In the cybercafé for freelancers ‘I’m sick, I’m the president’, there is an ad stating that some covered sports facilities in the metropolitan area (businesses with ban on meetings) and restaurants in general (businesses restricted to businesses) also did not receive grants. The owner of a PC cafe in Gyeongsangbuk-do said, “I am trying to apply for a general business because I cannot receive support for a specially damaged business, but I wasted time to send the documents because I was preparing related documents.” .
Controversy over ‘fairness’ from the start
The government’s new funding system has been consistently noisy since the announcement began. Initially, the government removed entertainment establishments and Collate from the support target, but put it in the target of supporting the Burjaburia equity controversy. Additionally, the rule that small business owners who started business after June 1 this year cannot be supported also generated controversy. An official from the Korean Federation of Entertainment and Food Industry said: “The guide says that all subsidies will be awarded to the whole country, so we did not know that the availability of support differs for each local government.” An official from Small Business Corporation explained: “When an application is received for a new desired fund, it is a structure that checks whether the local government has received a collective ban and pays it, so we were unable to notify the area where the payment is. impossible”.
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