Busan City Provides 1 Million Won Each to 'High-Risk Facilities'... "Support Needed as Operations Were Suspended"

'Busan High-Risk Facility Support Fund' 6,600 Locations 1 Million Won ... 816 Bathhouses 500,000 Won Cash Payment

On the 28th, a public official from Gijang-gun, Busan, is posting a notice of assembly ban order at the entrance of a bathhouse facility.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] Busan City has decided to provide emergency disaster relief funds of 1 million won each, called the ‘Busan High-Risk Facility Support Fund,’ to high-risk facilities whose operations were suspended due to the issuance of a gathering ban administrative order.

On the 4th, the city decided to extend the ‘strengthened social distancing’ for two weeks. As the damage to local small business owners and micro-entrepreneurs increased due to this, the city decided to provide emergency support funds to facilities that have actively cooperated with the city’s policy despite difficulties in their livelihoods.

The target includes high-risk facilities and bathhouse businesses facing prolonged suspension of operations and increasing economic difficulties due to the two-week extension of social distancing level 2.

Busan plans to provide 1 million won each to about 6,600 locations of 12 high-risk facilities in Busan, and an additional 500,000 won each to 816 bathhouses subject to the gathering ban order. However, facilities that violated the order during the administrative order period will be excluded from the support.

The background of this support payment involved active cooperation from 16 districts and counties of Busan. The funding will utilize the disaster relief fund, and the districts and counties will share 20% of the total amount.

Busan City plans to expedite administrative procedures in cooperation with the districts and counties to provide the funds as quickly as possible.

Byun Sung-wan, Acting Mayor of Busan, said, “COVID-19 is the most powerful and threatening ordeal we have experienced, and it is dividing us accordingly,” adding, “More than ever, we must unite and overcome the crisis with warm encouragement and support rather than blame and criticism toward each other.”

Earlier, among Busan’s basic local governments, Gijang-gun was the first to provide emergency disaster relief funds of 1 million won each to high-risk facilities in the district from the end of last month and to bathhouses from the beginning of this month.

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