대기업 일자리도 빼앗은 코로나19...두 달간 직원 만 명 급감<br /><br />The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a number of South Korea's largest companies to lay off workers..<br />Those in the entertainment and food sectors have been the hardest hit, as our Kim Do-yeon reports. The COVID-19 outbreak has left many of South Korea's movie theaters empty.<br />There were only around 1-point-8 million viewers in March, one-eighth the number of viewers from the same time the previous year.<br />CGV, one of the largest cinema chains in South Korea, even had to temporarily close one third of its theaters.<br />Other large companies, mainly in the entertainment, food and service sectors, have also been directly hit by the COVID-19 outbreak.<br />Korean business analysis website CEO Score looked at the number of National Pension contributors to gauge the scale of COVID-19's impact on employment.<br />It found that the number of contributors had dropped by some 10-thousand-800 during February and March.<br />This shows a fall from the same period last year, when the number of people paying into the pension pot increased by some 3-thousand-four-hundred.<br />The retail sector was particularly badly hit, with more than 4-thousand job losses in February and March.<br />By company, CJ CGV had the most layoffs with around 2-thousand-3-hundred, followed by CJ Foodville and Starbucks Korea.<br />"Looking at the companies that had the most dismissals like CJ CGV, Lotte Shopping and Daiso, it is those that were directly affected by social distancing due to the COVID-19 outbreak."<br />It's a different story for the delivery sector though.<br />Coopang, a parcel delivery service company, hired 9-hundred-13 new employees in February and March, possibly benefiting from the increase in people ordering products for delivery during the social distancing period.<br />Kim Do-yeon, Arirang News<br />
