On the 26th during lunchtime, a discount banner related to the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) was hung at the Myeongdong Underground Shopping Center in Jung-gu, Seoul. 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 last year. /Reporter Mun Honam munonam@
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