Yongin City Conducts Street Campaigns for 'Child Abuse Prevention Day'

[Asia Economy (Yongin) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Yongin City, Gyeonggi Province, will hold a meeting and street campaign to prevent child abuse on the 19th in observance of 'Child Abuse Prevention Day.'

First, on this day, civil, government, and police officials, including Mayor Baek Gun-gi of Yongin City, Hwang Jae-gyu, Chief of Yongin Eastern Police Station, Jeon Young-jin, Head of the Women and Youth Division of Yongin Western Police Station, Choi Dong-hoon, Director of Yongin Severance Hospital, and Shin Jae-hak, Director of the Gyeonggi Yongin Child Protection Agency, will gather to inspect the system jointly established for child abuse prevention following an agreement made last July.

In addition, children will write hopeful messages and hang them on the Child Abuse Prevention Tree, and a handprinting event will be held.

The Child Abuse Prevention Tree will be installed at Yongin City Hall and Yongin Severance Hospital until the 25th, and any citizen can participate in writing messages.

The city will also conduct a street campaign.

Mayor Baek Gun-gi said, "Corporal punishment is not discipline, and children must not be hit for any reason," adding, "I ask all citizens to recognize the seriousness of child abuse and to work together for the safety and protection of children by reporting suspected child abuse situations to 112."

Meanwhile, Child Abuse Prevention Day is a legal commemorative day established to raise awareness of the prevention and suppression of child abuse. The city designates the week starting from Child Abuse Prevention Day as Child Abuse Prevention Week and conducts various education and publicity activities.

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