Yangcheon-gu Operates Safe Play Spaces and Infant Experience Programs for Homecation Families

Planning a Safe Vacation Event by Transforming 5 Local Open Childcare Centers Suspended Due to COVID-19 into Family-Only Resorts

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Yangcheon-gu (Mayor Kim Soo-young) will hold the ‘Homecance! Safe Vacation Event’ from August 3 to 28, providing play spaces and experience programs for families with infants and toddlers spending their summer vacation at home due to COVID-19.

Although the first vacation season since the COVID-19 outbreak is approaching, many families are unable to make vacation plans due to the pandemic.

Especially families with young children are more cautious due to concerns about their children’s health and safety, but since children of active play age are confined at home, both parents and children are seriously exposed to stress commonly called ‘corona blue.’

To alleviate these inconveniences for residents and provide a safe vacation space for families with infants and toddlers, Yangcheon-gu decided to hold an event for homecance participants throughout August at five local open childcare rooms currently closed due to COVID-19 (Mok 4-dong Haewoori, Sinwol 5-dong Bangadari, Sinwol 7-dong Haemaji, Sinjeong 1-dong Hope, Sinjeong 6-dong Haenuri Open Childcare Rooms).

The open childcare rooms hosting the event will be decorated with props and banners that evoke various vacation spots such as beaches and forest campsites, allowing families to fully enjoy the vacation atmosphere.

The operating hours are daily (Monday to Friday) from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., each session lasting 3 hours. To ensure safe operation, each family group, including children and guardians, is limited to 10 people or fewer. Play spaces and experience programs such as children’s woodworking will be provided for infants and toddlers.

The usage fee is the same as the existing open childcare room fee (1,000 KRW per member / 2,000 KRW per non-member), and reservations can be made in advance starting from 9 a.m. on July 24 through the Yangcheon-gu Childcare Support Center website.

Mayor Kim Soo-young stated, “Considering that many families with infants and toddlers are experiencing fatigue and stress due to the prolonged COVID-19 situation and childcare, we planned this ‘Homecance! Safe Vacation Event.’ We will thoroughly conduct temperature checks, disinfection, and ventilation at every session and require users to wear masks, promoting this with the careful heart of a mother hoping that participating families have a safer and more fulfilling vacation.”

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.