Yongin City Temporarily Opens Paid Parking Lots for Free to Overcome COVID-19

[Asia Economy (Yongin) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Yongin City in Gyeonggi Province will temporarily open 27 paid public parking lots in the city free of charge to revive the local economy, which has fallen into a slump due to the spread of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19).

On the 18th, Yongin City announced that 21 paid parking lots, including 11 paid attached parking lots and 10 off-street parking lots operated by Yongin Urban Corporation and private consignment, will be free of charge until the end of COVID-19, and 6 on-street parking lots will be free until the end of this month. The total parking capacity of these parking lots is 5,426 spaces.

Baek Gun-gi, mayor of Yongin City, said, "We decided to open public parking lots free of charge to revive the local economy, which has been depressed due to the national disaster of COVID-19," and urged, "Please use local restaurants and old downtown shops a lot without worrying about parking fees to support those in difficulty."

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