Damyang-gun Launches Campaign to Crack Down on and Prevent Harmful Environments for Youth

On the 1st, Damyang-gun, Jeollanam-do announced that on the 31st of last month, it conducted a crackdown and prevention campaign against harmful environments for youth, including the eradication of narcotics, focusing on areas densely populated by adolescents.

This campaign involved five organizations: Damyang-gun, Damyang Police Station, Damyang Office of Education, Youth Harmful Environment Monitoring Group, and Damyang Youth Counseling Welfare Center. They carried out promotional activities aimed at improving and preventing harmful environments for youth, mainly around schools and busy commercial districts within the jurisdiction.

In particular, cases have recently emerged where adolescents purchase narcotic drugs through social networking services for purposes such as dieting and improving concentration, including the recent narcotic beverage incident in the Gangnam academy district.

In response, street promotional activities were conducted to raise awareness and prevent such behavior, and visits were made to local pharmacies to inform them of precautions when selling pharmaceuticals to adolescents.

Seo Saeng-hyun, head of the Damyang Youth Harmful Environment Monitoring Group, stated, “As the act of adolescents easily purchasing narcotic drugs through SNS is becoming a serious issue, we will continue to carry out prevention campaigns to protect the youth of Damyang-gun from narcotics.”

Meanwhile, the Damyang Youth Harmful Environment Monitoring Group is engaged in various activities to protect adolescents from harmful environments such as harmful substances and media, including monitoring and cracking down on harmful businesses for youth, enforcing violations of the Youth Protection Act, and protecting and guiding youth.

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