Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service and Hana Financial Group to Build 'Cheongna Public Daycare Center'

‘Cheongna Hana Financial Joint Workplace Daycare Center’ located in Cheolla International City, Incheon. [Photo by Korea Workers' Compensation & Welfare Service]

[Asia Economy Sejong=Reporter Lee Jun-hyung] The Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service is accelerating the installation of public daycare centers.

On the 11th, the Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service announced that it held the opening ceremony of the 'Cheongna Hana Financial Joint Workplace Daycare Center' in Cheongna International City, Incheon, together with Hana Financial Group. Previously, in 2018, the Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Hana Financial Group to install a win-win type joint workplace daycare center. A joint workplace daycare center is a public daycare center established with the land, building, and construction costs borne by large corporations, and shared with children of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) workers.

The Cheongna Hana Financial Joint Workplace Daycare Center was prepared by Hana Financial Group for SME workers while establishing the Hana Global Campus in Cheongna International City. This is the fourth joint workplace daycare center installed by Hana Financial Group, following those in Gwangju and Busan in 2019, Seoul in 2020, and Daejeon last year. The daycare center has a facility area of 3,601㎡ and a capacity of 300 children. The Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service supports part of the operating expenses and childcare staff salaries. Hana Financial Group bears all installation and operating costs beyond the Service's support funds.

The Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service currently supports the operation of 82 joint workplace daycare centers nationwide. It directly operates 37 daycare centers to support childcare for SME workers. This is the result of promoting the 'Joint Workplace Daycare Center Installation Cost Contest Project' since 2012 to spread a culture of coexistence between large and small-medium enterprises. The Service has signed MOUs with large corporations such as Industrial Bank of Korea, SK Construction, POSCO, as well as 10 local governments including Seoul City, and has selected a total of 126 support operators to date.

Kang Soon-hee, Director of the Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service, said, "Public daycare centers are exemplary cases of win-win cooperation to share quality childcare environments with SME workers," and added, "We will continue to increase public daycare centers together with more companies and public institutions in the future."

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