"Finding grassroots finance"...Supporting various items and management consulting.

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Today is Small Business Day.

However, the overall economy is not good, and the difficulties of small business owners are increasing.
Grassroots finance with a dense network in the
neighborhood is giving small business owners a breather.

Reporter Kim Bum-hwan reports.

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It is a store next to Gwangju's representative agricultural and fishery market.

An employee of a financial institution visited the store in person for a busy small business owner.

In addition to visiting financial services, we also supported promotional items such as banners and business cards.

[Lee Sook-hee / Representative of the seafood store: In our case, it's very difficult to go to the bank after leaving the store. The place where employees come right away and deposit money and save money like this....]

It is a warehouse-type discount store that sells a variety of meat.

Since its opening two years ago, the business has been supported with fresh uniforms by trading with nearby financial stores.

[Park Hee-soo / CEO of a warehouse-type meat store: The clothes are all in different conditions, so we received uniforms through the Credit Union. To make it neat and tidy, and to sell meat, clothes and uniforms are supported....]

From developing win-win loan products with principal and interest paid by local governments to customized management consulting for commercial districts,
Grassroots finance, which aligns height with
small business owners, is providing a lot of help to small business owners.

[Ko Young-cheol / Chairman of the Gwangju Cultural Credit Union: If it can be of little help to businessmen in our region, we will provide support through all financial, tax, and expert consultations to the extent that we can, and we will work hard together and do our best to revitalize the local economy.]

The total number of small business owners in Gwangju is 180,000.

Gwangju Metropolitan City is also operating a "public delivery app" to help small business owners who are facing increasing difficulties.

I'm Kim Bum Hwan of YTN.