“Let’s shave your hair before step 3″… Beauty salon, booming to not laugh

– Ten days have passed since the social distancing has been upgraded to 2.5 steps, but there is no confirmation at all, with the number of new corona 19 confirmed cases reaching 1,000 for three consecutive days. However, the government re-emphasized the goal of’preventing outbreaks without upgrades’, with the fact that only 2,300,000 facilities that are prohibited or restricted in operation during the third stage of upgrade. According to the Central Defense Countermeasure Headquarters (Bangdaebon) on the 18th, as of 0 o’clock on this day, 1062 new confirmed cases were recorded for three consecutive days following the 16th and 17th (1078 and 1014).

Young-rae Son, head of the Strategic Planning Division, Central Accident Recovery Headquarters (heavy water version), confirmed at a regular briefing on the day that “there is considerable economic damage in the case of an upgrade to the third stage,” and “the goal is to curb the epidemic without being upgraded.” “In the case of multi-use facilities, all multi-use facilities such as stores, movie theaters, wedding halls, beauty salons, PC cafes, etc., except for the purchase of daily necessities and medicines, will be suspended.” “This number is 1.12 million nationwide, considering only the metropolitan area. If you do, it will reach about 500,000,” he warned. He also said, “Although the sale of daily necessities such as marts and convenience stores is allowed, we are reviewing the direction of limiting the number of visitors, and we are trying to allow large marts to purchase daily necessities.” Restaurants that allowed store operations until 9 p.m. in the 3rd phase of the existing distance are reviewing plans to allow only packaging or delivery like cafes. In this way, about 2.30 million nationwide and 910,000 multi-use facilities in the metropolitan area will be restricted or banned from operating. I have no choice but to.

The places where store doors must be closed unconditionally during the third stage of the upgrade are already in terror. Department stores are typical. The year-end and New Year holidays, which are usually followed by Christmas and New Year’s regular sales, are the biggest events of the year with 15% of the department store’s annual sales, and they have no choice but to blow them all. The bigger problem is the field staff and partners. The number of employees working in one department store ranges from 2000 to 5,000 depending on the size of the store. In particular, most of them are employees of business partners such as fashion companies, not department stores, but if the store is closed and business is hit, they may be forced to take unpaid leave or lose their jobs. In the case of the third stage of the beauty salon, there is a growing anxiety about the suspension of business. Kim Do-Hyun, 50, the president of a beauty salon in Jongno-gu, Seoul, asked, “If the number of customers is still reduced, but the three-step measures close the business, how do you pay the rent?”