Goyang City has developed a slogan design of "Goyang! Put 30 years, fly to a special city" to mark the 30th anniversary of the city's promotion in 2022 and the first year of Goyang Special City. The slogan was selected as the best work through the ‘30th anniversary of the city's promotion and the first anniversary of special city slogan contest’ in Goyang in September. The slogan contains a message to fly vigorously as Goyang Special City, which begins anew, looking back on the history of Goyang City for 30 years. The newly developed design arranged green, red, and yellow colors symbolizing s
Hwaseong City has attempted various policies, including one-stop vaccinations for unregistered foreigners and the operation of visiting vaccine buses, to increase foreign vaccinations, and found that the number of foreign vaccinations for COVID-19 is the highest in the country. Hwaseong City announced on the 18th that as of the 18th, the number of registered foreigners vaccinated against COVID-19 was 42,705 and the number of unregistered foreigners was 9,067, the highest number in the country. These figures are far higher than those in nearby Siheung-city (41,225 registered, 5,017 unregistere
The Central Library of Ansan City announced that it will run a special lecture on youth humanities, "World Citizens,Cross the Sea of Hate to Peace" online. The lecture, which will be held twice on the 6th and 13th of next month, is expected to be a useful time for teenagers in Ansan, designated as the first mutual cultural city in 2020, to find the meaning of world citizens actintogether through fair thinking under the theme of "Human Rights, Peace, Coexistence." The first special lecture "Hate and Human Rights" by Jang Deok-hyun, a human rights activist who worked for Mnesti International an
Anseong City announced that it will produce and distribute "Everything about Anseong City Road Name Address", which is a booklet on road name address Q&A and the origin of road names to enhance understanding of road name addresses and make road name addresses a part of life. This booklet contains various information on road name addresses in a question-and-answer format,and introduces the changed address system and the origins of 18 distinctive road names in Anseong due to the revision of the Road Name Address Act on June 9, 2021. The booklet will be placed in the eup, myeon, and dong comm
Paju City signed a business agreement with the Korea Housing Finance Corporation and NH Nonghyup Bank on the interest support project for youth lease loans on Oct. 5. The agreement ceremony is aimed at mutual cooperation between Paju City, the Korea Financial HousingCorporation, and NH Nonghyup Bank to reduce the burden of housing costs for young households in Paju City, and details of the agreement will be coordinated through working level consultations in the future. The youth lease loan interest support project, which will be promoted in 2022, is a project that supports part of the interes
With the increasing number of double-income couples and the diversification of working types, Uijeongbu City plans to improve its night extension daycare centers operation by expanding anddesignating the centers from 40 to 45 within this year to ease the burden of childcare for parents who frequently work at night. The night extension daycare center is a daycare center that extends the operation time up to 24:00after the standard childcare time (07:30 to 19:30), and night extension childcare fees are fully supported by the state. For the extended childcare, guardians of children who receive e
Suwon City will renovate 334 urban parks in Suwon City by September 17 ahead of the Chuseok holiday. The maintenance will be carried out in 98 neighborhood parks, 202 children's parks, and 34 small parks to create a pleasant and safe park environment. An inspection team consisting of four district offices' employees of green parks department, and park managers will check landscaping, facilities, electrical facilities, toilet management, and illegal activities. They will also repair major facilities such as sports equipment and benches that citizens frequently use, and manage cleanliness by di
Paju City will strengthen non-face-to-face inspections for the safety of daycare centers as the fourth stage of social distancing following the continuation of COVID-19 is prolonged. In order to prevent gaps in safety management due to the suspension of on-site inspections and strengthen autonomous safety management of daycare centers, 392 daycare centers in Paju should self-inspect their feeding service, sanitation, safety by the 10th. In particular, this inspection will check the before-and-after organization of cooking room and refrigerator to prevent food poisoning. Meanwhile, Paju City c
Dongducheon City announced that it would recruit participants for a cultural communication program called "소동 (Small Companion)" The "Small Companion" program, organized by the Dongducheon Healthy Family and Multicultural Family Support Center (Center Director Lee Jung-sook), is runned to improve awareness of multiculturalism through a mentoring program between marriage immigrants and community members and encourage marriage immigrants to participate in society so that they relive stress caused by corona blue and promote physical and mental health. The program will be operated once a week fro
Ansan City announced that the "COVID-19 Integrated Psychological Support Group", which has been operating since March last year with the Mental Health Welfare Center, has been receiving a great response, with more than 11,000 users including self-quarantined people and citizens. The integrated psychological support group, which has been operated since the beginning of the COVID-19 incident to help self-quarantine and citizens resolve psychological difficulties such as anxiety and depression caused by COVID-19, has provided professional counseling and help The support group delivers mental hea
Yangpyeong county held the meeting to initiate a comprehensive care project for the local community with officials of Yangpyeong Welfare Center for the Elderly, Yangpyeong Comprehensive Social Welfare Center, Yangpyeong Welfare Center for the Disabled, and Yangpyeong Healthy Family Support Center. Local community care service is a policy that provides customized services including residence, medical service, and nursing care to the elderly who need health care and nursing. The services are provided in their residence, not hospitals. This meeting covered topics such as sharing Yangpyeong count
Ansan City Healthy Family Support Center reported that they ran ‘Dad-Child Care Program’, in which the father and children participate together. This program aims to provide opportunities to have fresh experiences to fathers and children who cannot spend time together due to COVID-19, and let them make good memories. The program was run from March to this month via an online video meeting program to prevent COVID-19. Participants made good experiences through various activities such as ▲upcycling: making a photo frame with milk cartons ▲playing with art ▲board games ▲cooking. One of the fathe
Paju city is operating citizen safety insurance that pays insurance to citizens who are killed, injured, or permanently disabled due to various disasters and robbery. Paju city has enacted 「Enactment on Signing Up and Operation of Paju City Citizen Safety Insurance」 in July 2019 and is operating the insurance since January 1st, 2020 to guarantee the stability of life and financially support the citizens who are damaged from disasters and accidents of everyday life. Citizen safety insurance targets every registered resident. It automatically signs the people who moved in and terminates the con
Goyang City Mental Health Welfare Center provides “mental support service” for citizens having mental difficulties such as restlessness and depression due to COVID-19. Goyang City Mental Health Welfare Center is an institution that promotes the enhancement of Goyang citizen’s mental health and puts effort into creating a happy local community that has no prejudice against mental disorders. The spread of COVID-19 is increasingly causing fear among citizens. There is an increasing threat to citizen’s mental health. For example, citizens are feeling lethargy as they are having fewer outdoor acti
Countermeasure inspection will focus on accommodation facilities such as mental health facilities, convalescent hospitals, homes for the disabled, and homes for the elderly. Hwaseong city has held an “Emergency Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters meeting” to prepare plans for additional vaccination and for reinforcing vulnerable facilities, as the number of local COVID-19 confirmed cases sharply rose. Hwaseong city held an emergency meeting, presided over by the mayor Cheol-Mo Seo, to reinforce the COVID-19 countermeasure in the situation room located on the second floor of the m