Resumption of Senior Programs at Seongdong-gu Sageun-dong Senior Welfare Center and Others

Operation Resumes from August 3 at Five Senior Welfare Centers Including Sageun-dong Senior Welfare Center... Starting with Non-Active Programs for Under 10 Participants Such as English, Chinese, Art, and Smartphone Classes

Seongdong Chaekmaru, which has been open since the 21st

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] Seongdong-gu (Mayor Jeong Won-oh) announced that it will resume operations of five senior welfare centers, which have been closed since February due to the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), starting August 3.

Following the government guidelines announced on the 19th, the district will restart programs for seniors at the senior welfare centers, which had been completely suspended, with small groups of 10 or fewer participants focusing on non-physical activities such as foreign language classes and humanities courses.

The welfare centers include Wangsimni Doseondong Senior Welfare Center, Sageun-dong Senior Welfare Center, Seongsu 1-ga 2-dong Senior Welfare Center, Daehyeon Senior Welfare Center, and Seongdong Senior Comprehensive Welfare Center, totaling five locations. Classes such as English and Chinese language courses, art classes, and smartphone usage lessons will resume.

To comply with infection prevention rules, the district pre-distributed quarantine supplies such as masks and hand sanitizers and conducted full facility disinfection through a professional company. Both electronic entry logs and handwritten logs will be used concurrently to improve the efficiency and accuracy of visitor management. Facilities will be disinfected twice a month by a professional company and daily living area disinfection will be performed more than twice a day.

To handle the increased quarantine tasks such as visitor management, one living quarantine officer will be assigned to each welfare center. Preparations for reopening include securing isolation spaces for symptomatic individuals, enforcing social distancing, mandatory living area disinfection, and posting infection prevention guideline notices.

A district official said, “As COVID-19 has prolonged, seniors who had to stay home have suffered greatly from depression and helplessness. With the recent slowdown in infections and to provide a space where they can momentarily forget the heatwave, we decided to reopen the welfare centers and adjusted the opening date to August 3 to allow time for quarantine preparations.”

Jeong Won-oh, Mayor of Seongdong-gu, said, “Although we operated online lectures and welfare center staff and program instructors regularly made welfare calls during the closure, it was regrettable as it could not be a fundamental solution. We hope this reopening will be the first step back to daily life, helping seniors regain mental stability and vitality in their lives.”

The district began operating six public libraries, including the shared library ‘Seongdong Chaekmaru’ inside Seongdong-gu Office, and 15 small libraries from the 21st. Performance halls such as Sowol Art Hall and Seongsu Art Hall are scheduled to open on the 31st. Entry to each facility is limited to 30% capacity, with strict quarantine measures such as installation of partitions in libraries and social distancing seating systems being enforced to accelerate the return to normal daily life.

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