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The self-employed on the brink of collapse
Sohn Hae-yong The author is the business news editor of the JoongAng Ilbo. I recently visited the “kitchenware street” in Hwanghak-dong, Seoul, and there were more merchants than customers. The merchants buy products from closed stores and sell them to …