If you need travel information or are unsure what to do when faced with an inconvenience at a tourist destination, you can call the Korea Tourism Organization's tourism information service, '1330.’ Korea travel solution '1330' provides real-time travel information to domestic and international tourists. The service is available in eight languages in addition to Korean: English, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Vietnamese, Thai, Malaysian, and Indonesian. The service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week by dialing 1330 without an area code. If you need information that is difficult to fin
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Tourism Organization said they will issue discount coupons for accommodation nationwide. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will provide coupons that can receive discounts of 20,000 won to 30,000 won when booking domestic accommodation facilities through a total of 49 online travel agencies. Discount tickets will be issued once per person on a first-come, first-served basis by the 8th of next month, and will automatically expire if they are not used (booking accommodation) within the validity period (from 10 a.m. to 7 a.m. the
Waste that is inseparable from our lives, we must properly throw away waste that is produced in our daily lives. There is often an item in waste that makes you think, "How do I throw this away?" Among them, we are going to find out how to throw away fluorescent lights. Fluorescent lights are consumables, so if you keep using them, their life will be over one day. Some people may think it is just one or two fluorescent lights, and dump them carelessly. However, throwing away light bulbs in the wrong way can bring adverse impacts on your health and the environment. It is manufactured by putting
The government announced that it will start receiving applications for "COVID-19 Family Care Cost Emergency Support Project." Through this, workers who used family care leave to take care of their families infected with COVID-19 or to take care of their children under the 2nd grade of elementary school due to kindergarten or school closure, or remote classes, etc, will be provided with family care leave of 50,000 won per day and up to 10 days. It also plans to support workers who have already used family care leave after January 1 this year. The COVID-19 family care cost emergency support pro
Those who have completed vaccination against COVID-19 will be exempt from self-quarantine while entering the country from abroad beginning on the 21st. On the 20th, the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters stated that, beginning on the 21st, overseas travelers who have completed vaccinations in Korea and abroad and recorded their vaccination history will no longer be required to self-quarantine. People with completed immunization who are exempt from self-quarantine are those who have taken the second vaccine (one time for Janssen) and have passed 14 days but are still with
The Tomorrow Learning Card is a card that supports training costs and other expenses so that people can undertake their own vocational competence development training. The Tomorrow Learning Card covers training costs ranging from 3 to 5 million won per person for vocational training. The eligibility to apply for the Tomorrow Learning Card follows: △Individuals who are unemployed and have applied for a job and are at least 15 years old, △Individuals who are insured by government’s priority support companies, △ Fixed-term, dispatched and part-time workers, small-business self-employed workers,
In our daily lives, we occasionally need to send a fax quickly. Here are the locations and ways of sending faxes. 1. The community centers and local welfare centers offer free printing and faxing on weekdays from 9:00 to 18:00, and there is also an unmanned civil petition issuing device. Some community centers have these devices, but others do not, so it's best to call ahead before visiting. 2. If it is a post office that handles both banking and postal services, it can transmit faxes for a fee. How to use: Complete the fax application form and pay the minimum charge of 500 won for each sheet
As a result of the police piloting a highway secret patrol car equipped with crackdown equipments, more than 10,000 speeding cases were cracked down over three months. The police decided to regularize the secret crackdown from this month, believing that the effect of cracking down on highway speeding was great. Currently, fixed-type crackdown cameras are cracking down on speeding vehicles on highways, but drivers often slow down only in front of the camera and then speed up again. In response, the police developed the overspeed crackdown equipment that can be mounted on vehicles, attached it
Gyeonggi-do will begin accepting applications for the "2022 Gyeonggi Ultra Low Credit Loan", which will provide up to 3 million won at low-interest rates to people with low credit scores who have difficulty making a living, from March 7. "Gyeonggi Ultra Low Credit Loan" is a project that provides loans up to 3 million won at a low-interest rate of 1% per year after screening low-credit residents aged 19 or older who need living funds but cannot take out loans from institutional financial institutions due to their low credit ratings. The type of support is ▲ screening loans ▲ loans to victims
Gyeonggi-do will install a Gyeonggi-do certification signboard at the registered campsite so that users can easily identify whether it is a registered campsite equipped with safety and hygiene facilities when selecting a campsite. Campsite businesses can be registered after complying with related laws, such as installing safety and hygiene facilities and subscribing to campsite accident liability insurance under the Tourism Promotion Act. There are 689 registered campsites in the province, the largest number among 2,863 nationwide. Some operators illegally redirected farmland and mountainous
강원 속초시(시장 이병선) 속초시가족센터가 결혼이민자의 지역사회 정착을 돕기 위해 한국어 교육과 운전면허 취득 지원사업 참여자를 모집한다. 상반기 한국어 교육 참여자를 3월 4일까지 모집한다. 대상은 결혼이민자와 중도입국자녀다. 교육은 3월 5일 개강식을 시작으로 7월까지 매주 화요일과 목요일 오전과 오후에 진행된다. 운영 과정은 지역문화활용 한국어 3개 반과 법무부 사회통합 프로그램 3단계다. 센터는 상황별 한국어 구사 능력을 높이고 지역문화를 익히는 데 중점을 둘 계획이다. 사회통합 프로그램을 통해 체류 안정과 사회 이해 역량을 강화하는 과정도 포함된다. 센터는 이번 교육을 통해 상황에 맞는 한국어 구사 능력을 높이고 지역문화를 익히는 한편, 사회통합 프로그램을 통해 체류 안정과 사회 이해 증진 등 안정적인 정착에 필요한 역량을 강화한다는 계획이다.
고성군가족센터(센터장 함수임)는 주말에 돌봄이 필요한 아동들을 안전하게 돌보고, 동시에 다양한 활동을 통해 정서적, 사회적 성장을 도우며 가족과 유대감을 쌓을 수 있도록 ‘토요돌봄 자녀교육 프로그램’을 운영한다고 전했다. 이번 사업은 고성군 거주 아동을 대상으로 실시하며, 지난해 만족도 조사에서 부모로부터 “실질적인 양육 부담 완화에 큰 도움이 되었다”는 호평을 받음에 따라, 올해는 관내 7세부터 초등학교 6학년까지 총 50명의 아동을 대상으로 더욱 다채롭고 깊이 있는 체험 활동을 제공할 예정이다. 이번 프로그램은 아이들의 상상력을 자극하는 그림책 놀이와 북아트, 창의적 사고를 기르는 융합 과학, 성취감을 맛볼 수 있는 베이킹 클래스 등 오감을 만족시키는 커리큘럼으로 구성되었다. 이를 통해 참여 아동들이 자신의 잠재력을 발견하고 건강한 사회성을 기를 수 있을 것으로 기대된다. 프로그램 참여 신청은 2월 9일부터 12일까지 가능하며, 프로그램 운영 시간은 3월 14일~6월 13일, 매주 토요일 10~12시다. 함수임 센터장은 “토요돌봄 자녀교육 프로그램은 단순 돌봄을 넘어, 지역사회 아이들이 안전한 환경에서 꿈을 키워나가는 소중한 기회”라며, “앞으로도 부모는
평택시가족센터(센터장 이은미)는 지난 12일(월)부터 14일(수)까지 3일간 천안 국립중앙청소년수련원에서 다문화가족 자녀 18명을 대상으로 청소년 둥근 놀이터 캠프 ‘다(多)같이 놀자’를 진행했다. 이번 캠프는 한국청소년활동진흥원의 국립청소년시설 청소년 활동 지원사업의 하나로 진행되었으며, 이번 캠프에는 평택시가족센터 외 3곳의 지역아동센터가 함께 참여했다. 참여 청소년은 2박 3일간의 캠프에서 디지털 사격, 실내 암벽 등반, 슈링클스 명함 제작, 카프라 세계 마을 꾸미기 등 창의성을 기를 수 있는 디지털·예술활동과 청백운동회, 팀별 미션수행 등 팀워크 기반 활동을 통해 사회성과 협동심을 기를 수 있는 다양한 프로그램을 체험했다. 캠프에 참여한 청소년은 “학교에서는 경험하지 못한 다양한 프로그램에 참여할 수 있어 좋았어요. 다른 지역의 친구들과도 처음에는 어색했지만 프로그램을 진행하면서 많이 친해졌어요”라며 캠프 프로그램에 대해 만족을 표했다. 이은미 센터장은 “이번 캠프를 통해 참여 청소년들이 다른 지역의 청소년들과 어울리며 사회성과 협동심을 기를 수 있는 계기가 되었다. 2026년 평택시가족센터는 더 알찬 프로그램을 진행하여 평택 청소년들의 전인적 성장을