[사회]”Please stop ordering”…the appeal of delivery workers amid heavy snow and cold waves

[앵커]

Delivery workers, which became essential in the coronavirus era, are running down the ice in the cold today.

The risk of accidents is inevitably high, and an urgent appeal has been issued asking for the safety of delivery workers.

Reporter Hong Min-ki reports.

[기자]

Kim Doo-ha, who has been working as a free agent for the second year at the delivery agency’Nation of Delivery’.

Even in the cold of 20 years that struck Seoul, we are delivering without fail.

This destination is a house on the top of a hill.

I have a hard time climbing an icy uphill road.

When you come down, you have to risk recklessly.

It moves little by little, gently stepping on both feet, giving it a lot of strength, as if one body with the motorcycle.

[김두하 / ‘배달의 민족’ 기사 : 밀고 올라가려고 하다 보면 오토바이가 먼저 미끄러져 넘어지거나 제가 넘어지면서 더 크게 다칠 수가 있어서…. 미끄러지나 안 미끄러지나 느끼면서 타고 올라가는 게 더 괜찮다….]

Wide roads seem safe at first glance, but they are even more intimidating because of the invisible thin ice.

In the end, within an hour of starting delivery, Mr. Kim built a motorcycle.

[김두하 / ‘배달의 민족’ 배달 기사 : 아직도 여전히 얼어 있는데, 차들이 주행하다가 어중간하게 녹아서 여전히 미끄러운 데가 있더라고요. 제가 예상하고 준비했던 것보다 더 춥고 도로 상황 때문에 오늘은 일을 안 하는 게….]

On the 6th, when a surprise snowfall hit the metropolitan area, major delivery companies restricted service.

‘People of Delivery’ has reduced the range of orders available in some regions from the evening of the 6th.

In the case of’Yogiyo’, the delivery service has been completely discontinued only for affiliated drivers.

‘Coupang Itz’ temporarily stopped service in the Seoul area from the morning of the 7th to 1 noon.

[배달의 민족 관계자 : 주문을 평소처럼 하면 라이더 분들이 위험해지니까, 배달할 수 있는 거리를 확 좁히는 거죠.]

However, many of the drivers did the delivery job.

This is because you are an individual business owner, so you do not have to follow the agency’s delivery restrictions.

It is not easy to give up your daily income when delivery orders are rushing like these days.

[음식점 상인 : 배달이 있으면 좋죠, 기사님들도 좋고 그런데…. 돈 좀 벌겠다고 하다가 미끄러져서 몸 다치고 돈 나가고 이런 것 생각하면 남 일 같지가 않아요.]

A group of delivery workers issued an urgent appeal requesting that they stop accepting orders in bad weather.

The agency demanded that the order acceptance itself should be prevented.

[박정훈 / 라이더유니온 위원장 : 주문을 막지 않으면 누군가는 이걸 수행해야 하는 상황이 벌어진다는 겁니다.]

There are 200,000 delivery workers nationwide.

It seems that there is a need for an institutional device to ensure their safety in bad weather.

YTN Hong Min-ki[[email protected]]is.

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