Coupang Flex delivered by car.
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The Living Logistics Service Development Act, which recognizes only trucks and motorcycles as a means of delivery and delivery, passed the National Land Transportation Committee on the 24th. Related industries strongly protested, saying that it is a’new industry development impediment law’ that puts not only the delivery of cars and bicycles, which are still used, but also the delivery of drones, a promising new industry, into the blind spot of the law.
The National Assembly, Land, and Transportation Committee held a plenary meeting on this day to deal with the so-called’Courier Delivery Act’. The Living Logistics Service Development Act is a law with the purpose of preparing a legal basis for various new delivery means of delivery other than freight cars. However, vehicles other than two-wheeled trucks were excluded from transportation under this law. This is because of the backlash from the cargo union that “if other means of transport are recognized, freight car delivery will be hit.” Eventually, businesses that use other means of transportation, such as cars, bicycles, and electric kickboards, like in the past’Ride’, are placed on the border of the law, not legal or illegal.
Right now, Coupang Itz and Baemin Connect are expected to become businesses with no legal basis. The basis for promoting drone delivery, which President Moon Jae-in directly selected as an innovation case, will disappear. It is highly likely that the conflict between Tada and the taxi industry last year will be reenacted in the parcel delivery industry. Tada ended its service when the “Tada Ban Law” passed the National Assembly amid the backlash from the taxi industry that it was “illegal”.
The industry was concerned that the contraction of the new industry due to increased uncertainty became apparent. An industry official criticized, “A few months after the Tada crisis ended, we should think about what remains besides citizens’ discomfort and shrinking new industries.” “The National Assembly is making the same mistakes.”
One-sided treatment of 與, Life Logistics
Pushed by the existing cargo industry breath… Also, legislation to prevent the emergence of new industries
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Delivery of electric bicycles to CJ Logistics.
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There are criticisms that the ruling party enforces the Living Logistics Service Industry Development Act, which excludes passenger cars, bicycles, and kickboards from courier and delivery means of transportation without collecting opinions or deliberating. It is pointed out that it is pushing the bill by reflecting only the demands of the cargo industry, an existing industrial interest group. It is reported that there was no procedure for collecting opinions from stakeholders, such as Coupang and the People of Delivery, who are in the parcel delivery industry using cars and bicycles.
According to the National Assembly’s Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee on the 24th, in the first car proposed by Democratic Party lawmaker Park Hong-geun in June, in addition to trucks and motorcycles, drones were regulated as a means of transportation, and cars and bicycles were allowed to be prescribed by Presidential Decree. Afterwards, contrary to the cargo union, all other means except for trucks and two-wheeled vehicles were set by Presidential Decree. However, when the cargo union even opposed this, it was decided to recognize only trucks and motorcycles as law.
It is evaluated that the Democratic Party has made a “vote” option this time, just like the taxi industry’s hand in the tada-taxi debate in the past. Currently, the freight industry is limiting the number of vehicles through commercial license plates in order to prevent a decline in freight rates due to an unlimited number of vehicles. On the yellow license plate for business, a premium of tens of millions of won is attached to the so-called’number value’ similar to the taxi license premium. The freight industry was concerned that the number value would drop sharply if other modes of transportation were accepted. The Democratic Party accepted this opinion as it was from organized freight unions such as the National Federation of Freight Car Transportation Businesses, the National Federation of Individual Cargo Transportation Businesses, and the National Federation of Freight Car Transportation Businesses.
The related industry was concerned that the business uncertainty increased as the parcel delivery industry flocked out of the law and moved to the’gray’ area that is neither legal nor illegal. An industry official said, “The biggest problem when doing business is uncertainty,” and said, “Who will invest in industries that may be banned?”
It is analyzed that if the industry shrinks, there is a high possibility that a significant number of related jobs will decrease. According to the Samsung Transportation Safety Research Institute, etc., it is estimated that the number of courier workers currently using cars, bicycles, walks, and kickboards reaches 150,000. The legal basis for the drone delivery industry, which predicts that it will become a promising new industry in the future, will also disappear. President Moon Jae-in announced the’Road Map for Promoting the Use of Drone Parcel Delivery’ at a state affairs review and coordination meeting held in October last year, presided over by Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon, and ordered business revitalization. Nevertheless, the government and the ruling party came up with a bill to prevent the growth of new industries. US Amazon and Uber have announced that they will commercialize drone delivery within 3 to 4 years, and drone delivery companies such as DJI and Leehang are growing rapidly in China.
It is pointed out that it is a problem to prevent new industries from appearing by law considering only damage to existing workers. Professor Sung Tae-yoon of Yonsei University’s Department of Economics said, “It is difficult to protect the existing industry itself, but it is difficult to protect the existing industry itself. It is highly likely that the change of the industry cannot be artificially prevented anyway, and only economic losses will increase.” said.
Reporter Sung Sang-hoon [email protected]
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