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Starting today, applications for loss compensation for small business owners have started.
However, there are many people who have to pay the unpaid rent after receiving this loss compensation.
It is not the small business owners who actually took the loss, but the building owners who are collecting the compensation for the loss.
Reporter Lee Yoo-kyung reported.
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A large bowling alley in Dongdaemun, Seoul.
Half of the 30 lanes were off.
Due to the limit of the number of guests, the number of guests has drastically decreased.
Even if it was open 24 hours, it had to close at 10 pm.
The bowling alley’s monthly sales were down by 60-70% compared to before the coronavirus.
The rent of 60 million won a month is delayed by one year.
However, the compensation the bowling alley boss will receive is not much.
This is because only after July of this year, only 80% of the damage is given.
If you need to receive compensation, you have to pay one month’s rent overdue.
[김영환 / 볼링장 운영]
“Compared to the losses we’ve lost over the past two years, this is an absurd amount, and the rent seems to have to be paid first.”
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As a result of the survey by the Solidarity for Participation, half of the respondents were behind in rent like bowling alley bosses.
The average rent overdue is 7 million won.
One in four loses compensation is less than the amount of overdue rent.
It means that if you receive compensation for loss, it cannot be used as a stepping stone for recovery and goes back to the owner’s account.
[김남주 / 참여연대]
“I can’t help asking if it’s just and desirable to have the building owner compensate the loss. If you keep pouring water into the bottom of the dock, there will be no water left.”
Small business owners are only compensated for the past three months, and 80% of their losses.
On the other hand, if this is the case, the landlord will take 100% of the rent without any damage.
[이현영 / 실내체육시설 비대위]
“Isn’t it inevitable that the government has to pay a certain portion of the rent? I would like to suggest a way in which the lessor and the lessee can share it fairly.”
In fact, Canada and Australia allow landlords, tenants and the government to share the rent.
A similar law has been submitted to the National Assembly in South Korea, but discussions have not progressed.
This is Lee Yoo-kyung from MBC News.
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