Minister Lee Young Visits Donghaeng Festival Special Sale Site for Chuseok

Happy Department Store and Garak Market
Supporting Small Businesses, Small Merchants, and Traditional Markets

The Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced that Minister Lee Young visited Happy Department Store, a major sales site of the Hwanggeumnyeok Donghaeng Festival, ahead of Chuseok on the 25th, and later visited Garak Agricultural and Marine Products Wholesale Market to encourage traditional market merchants.

Happy Department Store, which was visited first, is a department store operated by the Small and Medium Business Distribution Center to support the sales channels of high-quality products from small and medium enterprises and small business owners, and houses many excellent quality products. Recently, it has transformed from a sales-centered space into a customer-friendly space by creating a digital transformation space for small business owners (live studio) and a complex cultural space to attract customers.

Lee Young, Minister of SMEs and Startups, is visiting the Happy Department Store in Yangcheon-gu, Seoul on the 25th, inspecting the sales floor.

Minister Lee visited the special sales area for the Donghaeng Festival and the exclusive store for small and medium enterprise products set up outdoors at the department store, directly viewing several popular products and communicating with small and medium business owners.

Following this, Minister Lee visited Garak Market located in Songpa-gu, Seoul in the afternoon, toured the Garak Mall sales area within the market to observe trends such as consumer price perception and market conditions, and purchased seafood and dried goods. Several related organizations also participated on site, including Yoon Mi-ok, president of the Women Venture Association, Shim Young-sook, head of the Nam Seoul branch of the Korea Women Entrepreneurs Association, and Lee Sun-hee, vice president.

Minister Lee said, "Onnuri gift certificates are continuously sold at a 5-10% discount, so I hope many people will use traditional markets where they can purchase Chuseok ritual items at affordable prices this year."

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