Hapcheon-gun Promotes Support for First-Generation Atomic Bomb Victims' Nursing Care Living Allowance

Contributing to the Stabilization of Lives and Welfare Improvement of Atomic Bomb Victims

Exterior view of the Atomic Bomb Victims Welfare Center

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Hapcheon-gun, Gyeongnam announced on the 6th that starting from January, it will provide a monthly care living allowance of 50,000 KRW to the first-generation atomic bomb victims who suffered from the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

In June of last year, the county partially amended the ‘Hapcheon-gun Atomic Bomb Victim Support Ordinance’ to establish the basis for providing allowances to about 300 atomic bomb victims residing in Hapcheon-gun.

Additionally, with a budget of 200 million KRW, it will become the first in Gyeongnam to provide a care living allowance to the first-generation atomic bomb victims.

Moon Jun-hee, the mayor of Hapcheon-gun, said, “We expect that the support of the care living allowance will contribute to the stabilization of the lives and the improvement of welfare for atomic bomb victims.”

Meanwhile, Hapcheon-gun operates an atomic bomb data center, holds memorial ceremonies for atomic bomb victims, and conducts welfare promotion events for atomic bomb victims.

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