Dongjak-gu Mayor Lee Chang-woo and Actor Jin Young Join 'Good Consumption Movement'

Lee Chang-woo, mayor of Dongjak District, is visiting a restaurant in Noryangjin-dong and making an advance payment as part of the good consumption campaign.

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Dongjak-gu (Mayor Lee Chang-woo) is promoting a good consumption campaign with residents to overcome the economic crisis caused by COVID-19.

The good consumption campaign refers to a consumer movement to revive the local economy, which has been depressed due to COVID-19, by preventing a consumption cliff through prepayment at small business establishments, promising revisits, and actively using traditional markets and neighborhood commercial districts.

This campaign, under the slogan "Valuable Consumption, Living Together in Dongjak!", will run until June 12 and includes a prepayment certification photo event open to anyone who uses stores in the area.

For the prepayment certification photo event, those who upload a prepayment certification photo on the district website, etc., will receive a 10,000 KRW Onnuri gift certificate, awarded to 100 people on a first-come, first-served and lottery basis.

Also, from June 18 to June 17, those who provide proof of payment of 100,000 KRW or more and visit the local community service center of the store location or the district office’s Economic Promotion Division will receive five masks per person, limited to one time per person, targeting a total of 1,600 people. Receipts from restaurants, coffee shops, bakeries, etc., can be combined up to three during the period.

On the first day of the good consumption campaign, June 13, Mayor Lee Chang-woo visited a restaurant in Noryangjin-dong and actively participated in the campaign by prepaying with Zero Pay.

To promote the Dongjak-gu-wide good consumption campaign, a celebrity also joined. Actor Jin Young, currently serving as a social service agent in the district, visited a coffee shop in Noryangjin-dong, made a prepayment, and left a certification photo saying, "If I can support local merchants, I promise to visit again."

The district decided at the expanded executive meeting on COVID-19 prevention measures held on the 12th to maintain a strengthened living quarantine system equivalent to social distancing until the COVID-19 situation stabilizes, and will focus on disinfecting traditional markets and shopping districts during the event period.

Mayor Lee Chang-woo of Dongjak-gu said, "We ask for many people’s participation in the good consumption campaign for small business owners in the area who are going through difficult times due to COVID-19," and added, "To prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the community, we also ask residents to refrain from gatherings and visiting crowded, enclosed indoor spaces with high transmission risk, and to strictly follow hygiene rules as individuals responsible for quarantine."

Photo of actor Jinyoung participating in the Dongjak-gu Good Consumption Movement campaign

Since February, the district has been promoting movements to revive the local economy, such as suspending the district office cafeteria and operating dining-out days, encouraging the use of flower shops on Tuesdays to support florists, and expanding traditional market days.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.