Gathering of Nutrition Teachers 'Jipkok Club' Holds 'Tteokguk Sharing Event' for Elderly Living Alone in Gyeongsan City

Members of the 'Jipkok Menu Development Club' (hereinafter Jipkok Club), who won the Grand Prize at the Gyeongbuk Office of Education School Meal Teacher Club Contest, held a Love Rice Cake Soup Sharing event for elderly living alone on the 14th. Photo by Gyeongbuk Office of Education

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Jae-ho] The Gyeongbuk Provincial Office of Education announced on the 15th that members of the 'Jipkok Menu Development Club,' which won the Grand Prize at the school meal teacher club contest, held a rice cake soup sharing event for elderly living alone in Gyeongsan city on the 14th.

The Jipkok Club (President Imiran from Jangsan Middle School, Gyeongsan) is composed of nutrition teachers working at elementary and middle schools. It was established to develop and provide online nutrition education learning content for students exhausted by COVID-19.

Members of the Jipkok Club personally prepared rice cake soup packages and handwritten letters, portioned into servings for five people, and delivered them to Gyeongsan City Hall for elderly living alone who have to eat alone at home during the COVID-19 era. The rice cake soup packages, containing freshly sliced rice cake and egg soup stock packs, are delivered to the elderly living alone by Gyeongsan City Hall officials.

Lee Seong-hee, Director of the Physical Education and Health Department at the Provincial Office of Education, said, "We hope that the warm and positive influence of Gyeongbuk education, which cares about the nutrition of elderly living alone who must stay at home due to COVID-19, will bring comfort and hope to neighbors who are struggling and in hardship."

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