Jang Yeon-ju, Gwangju City Council Member, Hosts Policy Forum to Explore Directions for Delivery Industry Development

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Jang Yeon-ju, a Gwangju Metropolitan City Council member from the Justice Party, held a policy forum on the 20th in collaboration with the Gwangju Non-regular Workers Support Center titled "Policy Discussion on the Development Direction of the Delivery Industry in the Gwangju Area."

At the forum, Oh Chang-min, director of the Economic and Cultural Community Deoham, presented the "Statistical Analysis Results of the Survey on Delivery Apps for Small Business Owners and Delivery Workers in the Gwangju Area."

Panelists included Yoon Sang-hyun, General Affairs Manager of the Gwangju Branch of the Gwangju Restaurant Association; Lee Young-cheol, director of the Good Delivery Cooperative; Lee Jun, CEO and developer of the Gunsan City Baedal-ui Myeong-su app; and Park Jung-hoon, chairman of the Rider Union. They shared opinions and discussed the current state of the delivery business and the necessity of a public delivery app.

According to a survey conducted on 200 local small-scale and self-employed food delivery businesses, 85.9% responded that they use delivery apps or delivery companies, 9.0% use both employee delivery and agency services, and 5% deliver directly by employees or the self-employed.

The discussants agreed that with the increase in single-person households, preference for non-face-to-face services, and the convergence of the food service industry with IT technology, the delivery food service sector is undergoing significant changes, and online consumption is rapidly increasing. They concurred on the need to establish a public delivery app to protect the rights and interests of self-employed business owners, delivery workers, and consumers from the unilateral abuses of large monopoly delivery apps.

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