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[뉴스줌=정진태기자] Major commercial districts in Seoul, including tourist attractions Myeong-dong and Itaewon, and university districts, Shinchon and Idae, are collapsing. In a situation of stagnation due to the decrease in overseas tourists, even domestic visitors were cut off due to the spread of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), which has continued for a year. Half of the shopping center on the first floor in the street is vacant, and the right amount from hundreds of millions of won fell to zero. Even the cost of closing business reached tens of millions of won, so some self-employed people went into business indefinitely.
In Itaewon, where a large number of corona19 confirmed cases came from a club in 2020, 16 of the 36 stores on the first floor of the World Food Culture Street (500m) were closed or closed. In front of Ewha Womans University, where students were reduced due to non-face-to-face classes, 47 out of 57 stores 200m away were closed or closed. Park Jin-sil (46), who operates a 214m2 coin-singing practice center near Sinchon Station on Subway Line 2, said, “Only the debts generated after Corona 19 are 100 million won.” I’m paying some.”
The four-story building in front of Exit 8 of Myeongdong Station was empty after the Uniqlo Myeongdong Central Store closed on the 31st of last month. This is the largest 3729m2 (4th floor) UNIQLO store in Korea, with sales of 2 billion won on the first day of opening in 2011. The first domestic store of Swedish fashion brand H&M, Myeongdong Noon Square, also closed in November last year, 10 years after its opening. A notice was posted on a property in Itaewon stating that the first-floor shopping mall would be released at no interest rate. A restaurant owner said, “People are scared to come to Itaewon.” “In the next three months in this state, almost all merchants will not be able to withstand.”