Mapo-gu Fosters 'Mapo-style Neighborhood Management Companies' Creating Home Repair Jobs

Creating 8 Direct Jobs Including Resident Home Repair Workers... Activities Expected to Revitalize Every Corner of the Alley, Performing Tasks Reflecting Local Characteristics

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] Mapo-gu (Mayor Yudonggyun) is officially launching the cultivation of the ‘Mapo-type Neighborhood Management Company - Surimap’o,’ which creates community-based jobs by having the local area and residents directly manage their neighborhoods.

The ‘Mapo-type Neighborhood Management Company - Surimap’o’ is a project company established as part of a job creation initiative that highlights local characteristics, selected by the district in 2020 as a city-district upward cooperative job creation project.

Through this, the district recently created a total of eight jobs, including resident home repair activists.

The district has focused on the growing need for close-knit housing management involving the community and residents, due to aging housing stock, an increase in single-person and elderly households, and alleyway decline caused by the shift of commercial centers.

Accordingly, the district created the ‘Mapo-type Neighborhood Management Company - Surimap’o,’ which discovers housing-related issues, plans and provides repairs, and increases accessibility to home repairs by encouraging direct participation from local residents.

‘Surimap’o’ means ‘Mapo renewed again (Re:) by the hands of residents,’ and plans to carry out tasks such as simple home repairs, maintenance and management of small business stores, and operation of resident life repair schools through resident activists skilled in home repair techniques.

Additionally, ‘Surimap’o’ will perform ‘urban regeneration through home repair’ by incorporating various stories?such as those of alleyway shops and people within alleys?into local management services, based on the village travel platform ‘Mapomanbo,’ which has uncovered hidden neighborhood and urban regeneration stories in Mapo over the past three years, thereby enhancing the unique character and features of each neighborhood.

To this end, since the 26th of last month, the district has been conducting ‘Urban Regeneration Education Starting from Home Repair’ for resident home repair activists of the ‘Mapo-type Neighborhood Management Company - Surimap’o.’

This education was prepared to share the role and future direction of neighborhood management companies for urban regeneration with resident activists and to strengthen the expertise of ‘Surimap’o’ as a community-based service company that discovers local issues and increases resident participation.

The district plans to actively support resident home repair activists to advance as local management experts through not only this education but also future training to enhance home repair technical skills, startup incubating, and consulting with local experts.

Yudonggyun, Mayor of Mapo-gu, said, “I hope that the hands of ‘Surimap’o’ will breathe new life into every corner of Mapo’s alleys,” and added, “We will spare no support to ensure the establishment of the new job creation project ‘Mapo-type Neighborhood Management Company - Surimap’o,’ created together by residents and the community.”

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