Yangcheon-gu, Seoul City Selected for the 2nd Year of the '2021 Multi-family Housing Cohabitation' Project

Mokdong Samsung and Mokdong Woosung 2nd Apartments Selected, Securing 120 Million Won in Dispute Funds

Mokdong Samsung Apartment Care Education Completion Ceremony

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Yangcheon-gu (Mayor Kim Soo-young) has been selected for the second year of the ‘2021 Apartment Community Living’ public contest project promoted by Seoul City, receiving 120 million KRW in city funding.

‘Apartment Community Living’ is a project that supports the development of necessary services in collaboration with social economy enterprises to solve problems residents experience in their daily lives within apartment complexes, and helps nurture these services into business models.

For the selected complexes, resident education and consulting are provided for up to three years with the goal of establishing social economy enterprises and creating resident jobs.

Mokdong Samsung Apartments, selected for the second year project, started the first-year project in 2020 by conducting neighbor care education to support senior citizens’ social activities, and established the Good Companion Cooperative led by residents who completed the training.

This year, entering the second year, the project will focus on strengthening capabilities related to neighbor care education and ensuring the stable operation of the cooperative.

Also, Mokdong Woosung 2nd Apartments participated in the first-year project in 2019 and the pilot project in the second half of 2020, preparing to operate a resident book cafe within the complex.

In the second year this year, education related to the resident book cafe will be conducted and pilot operations will be carried out to lay the foundation for forming an economic community, preparing for the establishment of a social cooperative.

Kim Soo-young, Mayor of Yangcheon-gu, said, “As the importance of ‘mutual care’ within the local community has been confirmed due to COVID-19, we expect that this support project will revitalize the apartment residents’ community and become a successful model of the social economy.”

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