Inspection of the Progress in Promoting the Traditional Market Onnuri Gift Certificate Refund Event

Minister of SMEs and Startups & Minister of Oceans and Fisheries
On-site Inspection of Noryangjin Fish Market Onnuri Gift Certificate Refund Event
Listening to Small Business Owners' Opinions

The Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced that Minister Lee Young and Minister Cho Seung-hwan of the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries visited the Noryangjin Seafood Wholesale Market in Seoul on the 18th to inspect the Onnuri Gift Certificate refund event site and listen to the opinions of consumers and small business owners participating in the event.

On that day, Ministers Lee Young and Cho Seung-hwan toured the stores within the market to check the recent seafood price situation and traditional market economic trends, and they plan to directly purchase domestic seafood and demonstrate the Onnuri Gift Certificate refund process.

Minister Lee said, "The Onnuri Gift Certificate refund event is playing a role like a rain in a drought for traditional market merchants struggling due to the domestic demand slump," and added, "The Ministry of SMEs and Startups has agreed with the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries to expand the participating markets so that more traditional markets can benefit."

To enhance the effectiveness of the Onnuri Gift Certificate refund event, the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries have expanded the usage to retail stores in the seafood wholesale market, where Onnuri Gift Certificates were previously not accepted.

Furthermore, the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries has injected additional contingency funds to alleviate consumer-perceived inflation and revitalize the local economy, extending the traditional market Onnuri Gift Certificate refund event, which was originally scheduled to end on the 15th, through the end of the year.

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