Seongdong-gu Holds '2021 Village Community Contest Project Online and Offline Briefing Session'

Online Live Broadcast and Small On-site Briefings Scheduled 5 Times from 27th to 30th... Record 60 Resident Groups Selected with Support up to 4 Million KRW

The 2021 Seongdong-gu Village Community Contest briefing session, conducted non-face-to-face, can be applied for and registered online.

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] Seongdong-gu (Mayor Jeong Won-oh) will hold five online and offline briefing sessions for the 2021 Village Community Contest Project from the 27th to the 30th.

The Village Community Contest Project is a program that supports resident communities who independently plan, propose, and directly implement projects to solve problems in their neighborhoods.

Last year, the district supported village community projects of 41 resident groups across various fields such as care, education, welfare, and culture, including types like making neighbors and learning together.

Despite COVID-19, all groups appointed quarantine managers and safely completed their projects following quarantine guidelines. Some groups even practiced kindness by making masks and mask straps to share with neighbors.

This year, the Village Community Contest Project plans to support 60 resident group projects, the largest scale ever, with funding ranging from a minimum of 800,000 KRW to a maximum of 4,000,000 KRW across six categories: ‘Seed Stage’, ‘Sprout Stage’, ‘Activity Support’, ‘Creating Alley Communities’, ‘Social Problem Solving’, and ‘Making Neighborhoods’.

Starting with the first briefing session on the 27th, it will be broadcast live on the YouTube channel, followed by video briefings via Zoom sequentially. Small-scale on-site briefings will also be held at the Seongdong-gu Village Autonomy Support Center education hall, limited to 10 participants per session on a first-come, first-served basis.

Participation in the Village Community Contest briefing sessions can be done via phone or online.

Applications for the contest project proposals are accepted until February 18th. Interested groups should prepare documents such as a project plan and group introduction and submit them through the Seoul Village Community Comprehensive Support Center website.

A participant who was active in the ‘Middle-aged Reset Time’ resident group last year said, “Hearing about the nationwide shortage of small masks, we voluntarily started making cloth masks with a desperate heart. The most memorable and rewarding experience was distributing small and extra-small masks to local daycare centers, emergency care centers, community child centers, and Eungbong Elementary School for children in Eungbong-dong.”

Jeong Won-oh, Mayor of Seongdong-gu, said, “Although there will be many difficulties this year due to COVID-19, I hope residents actively propose various ideas to overcome them wisely. I also hope that the diverse dreams of residents for their villages will unfold like a picture that makes the daily lives of all neighbors in Seongdong-gu happy.”

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