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The South Korean government raised the upper limit on the price of farm, animal and aquatic gifts that public officials can receive during the Spring Festival to 200,000 won (about 1176 yuan), the Yonhap News Agency reported Thursday. It is reported that this is in the new crown of the outbreak of the South Korean society, the economy caused a serious blow, the South Korean government to work with the retail industry to promote agricultural products, livestock and aquatic products, and during the Spring Festival limited time measures.In order to crack down on collusion between government and business and social corruption, South Korea formally implemented the toughest anti-corruption law in history in September 2016, the "Prohibition of Illegitimate Asking for Trust and Accepting Property Law" (namely "Kim Yong Lan Law"), which stipulates that the upper limit of gifts and gifts is 50,000 won. The approval of the amendment to the Kim Young-lak Law is the first time the government has relaxed gift-giving standards since last year's Mid-Autumn Festival. The application period will run from the 19th of this month to the 14th of next month after the Chinese New Year holiday ends.At present, under the epidemic, South Korea all kinds of dinners, school cafeteria supply continues to reduce, resulting in domestic catering industry consumption continues to shrink. The South Korean government said the move was aimed at mitigating losses related to the country's agricultural, livestock and aquatic industries. From the perspective of consumption habits in South Korea, apples, pears, ginseng, beef, yellow croaker, abalone and other local farm animals and aquatic products mainly rely on the holiday consumption, and the decline of various holiday parties has made the livelihood of the farmers and fishermen mentioned above worse. A study suggests that lifting the cap to 200,000 won for agricultural, livestock and aquatic gifts would boost sales by 7 per cent.MBC television reported on the 19th, even though the government relaxed as the Spring Festival civil servants receive gifts ceiling, for suffering from epidemic, typhoons, cold injury of farmers are in trouble, but it also inevitably harm the authority of the act of yeong-ran Kim, because the act of yeong-ran Kim's core is to prevent the corruption of public officials, create incorruptible culture in South Korea.A South Korean civil society group, Joining and Joining, issued a statement condemning the South Korean government for using the outbreak as an excuse to undermine the authority of the Kim Young-lan Act and urging its immediate correction. 'If you are not allowed to accept expensive gifts during normal times, then you are allowed to accept them during major festivals such as the Spring Festival,' the statement said. This arbitrary tampering with the law is laughable. The statement stressed that there is no need to raise the ceiling on gifts received by public officials to increase the income of farmers and fishermen, which runs counter to the social atmosphere that advocates fighting corruption and being clean.