Busan City Promotes 'Warm Chuseok Holiday Plan' ... Distributes Over 2.6 Billion Won in Goods and Cash to Low-Income Vulnerable Households

Busan City Hall.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Hwang Du-yeol] Busan City is implementing the ‘2022 Warm Chuseok Holiday Promotion Plan’ to share warm feelings with neighbors and realize ‘Happy Welfare that Empowers Me’ in celebration of Chuseok.

Busan City has designated the two weeks from August 25 to September 8, before the Chuseok holiday, as the focused promotion period. During this time, all departments and senior officials of Busan City Hall and its business offices will support about 150 social welfare facilities with donations and goods.

As COVID-19 continues to spread, the goods will be delivered in a non-face-to-face manner.

For those who cannot return to their hometowns, expenses for ancestral rites tables will be supported at four homeless shelters to help hold joint ancestral rites. Additionally, 32,000 elderly living alone will receive holiday consolation money of 50,000 KRW per person.

Warm sharing from related organizations will also continue. BNK Busan Bank will provide Onnuri gift certificates worth a total of 440 million KRW to 10,000 low-income households in the Busan area.

Holiday rice cakes worth about 16 million KRW will also be provided for local elderly using social welfare facilities.

The Busan Community Chest of Korea will provide holiday support funds worth a total of 600 million KRW, giving 50,000 KRW per household to about 12,000 low-income vulnerable households and residents of jjokbang counseling centers.

On the 24th, the two organizations held a delivery ceremony at the 7th floor International Protocol Room of City Hall, handing over gift certificates and support funds to help marginalized neighbors have a warm holiday.

The delivery ceremony was attended by Lee Byung-jin, Deputy Mayor of Busan City; Park Myung-chul, Vice President of BNK Busan Bank; and Choi Geum-sik, Chairman of the Busan Community Chest of Korea.

The Busan branch of the Korean Red Cross also prepared donations worth about 47 million KRW to support agricultural and livestock products to 1,900 low-income households.

Lee Seon-a, Director of the Social Welfare Bureau of Busan City, said, “We will provide substantial support to offer great comfort and help to neighbors struggling with their livelihoods due to COVID-19.”

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