Seongnam City Establishes 'School Care Center' at Hawon Elementary School... Opening in December

Seong Sang-jin, Mayor of Seongnam (center), attended the signing ceremony for the 5th school care center in the Seongnam area on the 4th and took a commemorative photo after signing the agreement with Oh Chan-sook, Superintendent of Seongnam Office of Education (left), and Kim Chung-min, Principal of Hawon Elementary School.

Seongnam City in Gyeonggi Province is expanding its 'School Care Centers' (branches 1 to 4), which were previously only available in the Bundang area, to the Jungwon area to support after-school care for elementary students.

Unlike care classrooms operated independently by elementary schools, School Care Centers are managed by local governments with operating costs shared by the Ministry of Health and Welfare (25%), the Ministry of Education (25%), and local governments (50%).

On the 4th, Seongnam City held a business agreement on the 'Installation and Operation Project of School Care Center Branch 5' at the situation room on the 4th floor of City Hall, attended by Seongnam Mayor Shin Sang-jin, Seongnam Office of Education Superintendent Oh Chan-sook, and Ha-won Elementary School Principal Kim Chung-min.

According to the agreement, by December, a School Care Center that can accommodate 60 elementary students will be established and operated on the first floor of the gymnasium building at Ha-won Elementary School in Geumgwang 1-dong, Jungwon-gu.

Ha-won Elementary School will lease 308㎡ (equivalent to three classrooms) of the gymnasium building to Seongnam City free of charge for five years to be used as the care center.

The Seongnam Office of Education will establish a cooperative system between the city and Ha-won Elementary School and will support 36% (90 million KRW) of the remodeling cost of 250 million KRW for the School Care Center.

Seongnam City will invest an additional 160 million KRW to remodel the center into a School Care Center with a children's cafeteria.

The city will also manage operations, employing a facility manager, four care workers, and six staff members including cooks.

The usage fee during the school term is 50,000 KRW per month (including one meal), and during vacations, it is 100,000 KRW per month (including two meals).

Seongnam City first established the School Care Center Branch 1 at Pangyo Daejang Elementary School in Daejang-dong, Bundang-gu, in June 2021, the first of its kind nationwide. Subsequently, Branch 2 was opened at Sunae Elementary School (Sunae-dong) in September last year, Branch 3 at Ori Elementary School (Gumi-dong), and Branch 4 at Cheongsol Elementary School (Geumgok-dong) in November.

Mayor Shin Sang-jin of Seongnam said, "Thanks to the efforts of the three institutions, we have been able to establish a School Care Center in the Jungwon area as well," adding, "We will expand a cooperative system where the local community raises children together and strengthen the gap care function."

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