Taking Selfies and Practicing Kiosk Use... Pohang City's 'Senior Center Smart School' Receives Great Response

Mayor Lee Gang-deok of Pohang City visiting Chilseong Senior Center in Jukdo-dong on the 6th, listening to the elderly's opinions on smartphone education.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Dongguk Lee] The "Visiting Senior Citizens' Center Smart School" in Pohang City, Gyeongbuk Province is receiving great responses.

According to Pohang City on the 7th, the "Visiting Senior Citizens' Center Smart School" involves 34 happiness helpers for senior centers who directly visit the centers to provide smart device education. This administrative service responds to the rapidly increasing non-face-to-face and digital lifestyle environment due to the recent minimum wage increase and the spread of COVID-19.

The main education contents include ▲using smartphones for text messages, SNS, video calls, and photos ▲training on using kiosk unmanned terminals ▲searching for local living information ▲using QR codes, etc.

On the 6th, Mayor Kangdeok Lee of Pohang visited the smart school held at Chilseong Senior Citizens' Center in Jukdo-dong and said, "As the living environment and daily life of the elderly change significantly, we will actively discover and support various educational programs so that the digital divide does not lead to a quality of life gap."

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