This new year, because of the corona, families had to keep a distance. Even though we couldn’t get together like the usual holidays, we weren’t as different as before as we thought about our family.
Reporter Jeong Ban-seok delivers the new year’s scenery changed by Corona.
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[새해 복 많이 받으세요!]
The three-year-old baby, who nodded with her sister, struck her ass,
[할머니 할아버지, 새해 복 많이 받으세요!]
The child in Hanbok bows towards the camera.
This is a’LAN Line Triple’ video posted on social media by children who couldn’t go to their grandparents’ house because of Corona 19.
[김민정/서울 도봉구 : 식구들 모이면 5인 넘어가니까 올해는 저희끼리 집에서 보내고 있습니다. 이렇게나마 세배를 해야 제 마음도 편안하고 (아이도) 설날 의미를 알 수 있지 않을까 해서….]
‘Lanson Seongmyo’ was also held, where relatives from all over the country watched the three family representatives in person with a video conference program.
[이충걸/울산 북구 : (마음은 여기 와 있지?) 네, 마음은 항상 거기 있습니다.]
Children who did not see their parents in nursing hospitals bowed down the street.
The daughter waved her hand toward her mother on the fifth floor of the hospital, and she burst into tears, and the expression of her grandmother as she watched her grandchildren bow through the glass door was sad.
The memorial park, which was crowded during holidays, was empty today (12th).
It was rare to see only four people gathering and bowing.
A new landscape unfolded in which people could not meet face-to-face with their hearts, but it was a day I missed the ordinary holiday of gathering and chatting with family members.
(Video coverage: Kim Seong-il, Kim Yong-woo, Lee Jong-ho UBC, Seong Nak-jung TJB, Jung Chang-wook KNN, Video editing: Park Ji-in, helicopter pilot: Min Byeong-ho)