Park Yong-jin: "If People Dance at a Venue and It Gets Shut Down, the Rules Must Change"

[Financial News] Park Yong-jin, vice chairman of the Presidential Regulatory Rationalization Committee, said on the 28th that the government must step in directly to prevent a repeat of the "Ovantgarde incident." He also stressed the need for field-oriented regulatory reform.
At the meeting in central Seoul hosted by KCCI, Park pointed out, "Performance venues are being regulated under the Food Sanitation Act instead of the Public Performance Act."
Park cited the Ovantgarde case as a direct example. Ovantgarde, a live club in Daeyeon-dong, Nam-gu, Busan, was recently ordered to suspend operations for two months after a complaint was filed saying that dancing should be allowed in restaurants. Under current law, live clubs must be registered as general restaurants, but installing sound equipment such as speakers and allowing audience members to shout or dance is prohibited.
On that point, Park explained, "It was an indie band venue, so of course the audience danced and cheered, but it was shut down for two months because of that. The indie band community was thrown into turmoil because performance venues are regulated under the Food Sanitation Act instead of the Public Performance Act."
Park added, "We need to change unreasonable regulations that remain not only for companies, but also in cultural settings and in the daily lives of the public, so that people can feel the difference on the ground."
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