[Photo] Quiet Myeongdong Underground Shopping Center

On the 26th during lunchtime, Myeongdong Underground Shopping Center in Jung-gu, Seoul, was quiet due to the impact of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). On the same day, the Bank of Korea announced that the Korean economy contracted for the first time in 22 years since the foreign exchange crisis. /Reporter Mun Honam munonam@