Gwangju Mayor Lee Yong-seop: "Expansion and Implementation of Public Care Systems and Services"

Gwangju City Holds Opening Ceremony and Staff Meeting for Dahamkke Care Center

On the afternoon of the 19th, Lee Yong-seop, Mayor of Gwangju Metropolitan City, attended the opening ceremony of the "Together Care Center (Yangsan Sarang-ro)" held at the apartment management office in Yangsan-dong, Buk-gu. He participated in a hope message performance with guests including Jang Hwi-guk, Superintendent of Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education, Moon In, Mayor of Buk-gu, Jo Ho-gwon, Director of Gwangju Social Service Institute, and residents. Photo by Gwangju Metropolitan City

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] The Dahamkke Care Center (Yangsan Sarangro) in Buk-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City, opened on the 19th in the management building of Booyoung Sarangro Apartments on Yangsan Housing Complex Road, Buk-gu.

The opening ceremony was held with the attendance of Mayor Lee Yong-seop, Superintendent of Education Jang Hwi-guk, Buk-gu District Mayor Moon In, Director of Gwangju Social Service Center Jo Ho-kwon, Resident Representative Chairman Kim Jun-seok, and Principal of Bonchon Elementary School Kim Ki-jung, and was broadcast live on YouTube.

Mayor Lee and other attendees wrote messages of hope on a canvas, which were posted throughout the center for children to see.

The ‘Dahamkke Care Center’ first opened its first branch in Yeonje-dong in March 2019, and this ‘Yangsan Sarangro’ Dahamkke Care Center is the fifth branch.

Yangsan Sarangro Dahamkke Care Center is geographically close to children’s homes, providing psychological stability, and its operating hours are extended by 2 hours longer than school care classrooms, which is expected to reduce the burden on parents.

Gwangju City plans to open a total of 27 centers by next year following this care center.

In particular, following the opening ceremony, Mayor Lee held a meeting with executives of the Regional Children’s Center Association and Dahamkke Care Center directors.

At this meeting, the executives of the city’s Regional Children’s Center Association expressed difficulties in the care field and conveyed on-site issues such as improving worker treatment.

Gwangju City plans to review the suggestions made on-site and seek support measures.

Mayor Lee said, “As the saying goes, ‘It takes a whole village to raise a child,’ Gwangju is expanding public care systems and services for children, the future of the region,” adding, “We will support programs where children can stay safely and happily like their own home, study and play freely, and grow up bright and healthy without a blemish.”

Meanwhile, due to the local spread of COVID-19, Gwangju City has temporarily postponed the ‘Women and Childcare Special Week’ scheduled to be held from the 19th to the 23rd and plans to resume it once the spread subsides.

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