Self-Employed Emergency Committee Partially Accepts Government's Social Distancing Easing Measures

Tent Removal After 8 Days
Planned Mass Rally on the 20th Also Postponed

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[Asia Economy Reporter Gong Byung-sun] Nationwide self-employed organizations have decided to partially accept the government's easing measures on social distancing.

On the 15th, the Emergency Measures Committee for the Self-Employed (Jadae-wi) and the Korea Federation of Small and Medium Business (KSMB) announced in a joint statement that “we will partially accept the government's announced easing of social distancing measures and postpone the nationwide self-employed general rally scheduled for the 20th of this month.”

Jadae-wi explained, “Through sincere communication with relevant government ministries, an opportunity has been created to participate directly in dialogue channels such as the Trust Foundation and the Daily Recovery Committee. We also reflected concerns that the general rally could delay daily recovery and slow the damage recovery of small business owners and the self-employed, and thus ultimately decided to postpone the rally.”

Furthermore, Jadae-wi decided to voluntarily dismantle the protest tent installed in front of the Government Seoul Office after 8 days. Previously, on the 7th, Jadae-wi set up a tent and began a sit-in protest at Sejongno Park near the Government Seoul Office, demanding unconditional removal of time restrictions, unconditional removal of capacity limits, and full compensation for losses.

However, Jadae-wi stated, “If the phased daily recovery measures scheduled to be implemented from early November do not meet the demands of the Korea Federation of Small and Medium Business and Jadae-wi, we will gather opinions from allied organizations to decide whether to hold the general rally.”

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