Gwangju City Makes Every Effort to Identify Vulnerable Households in Welfare Blind Spots and Establish a Safety Net

First Agreement Between KEPCO MCS and a Metropolitan Government

Gwangju Metropolitan City (Mayor Kang Gi-jung) is focusing on discovering vulnerable households in welfare blind spots and building and strengthening a dense welfare safety net.

On the 6th, Gwangju City announced that it signed a “Business Agreement for Discovering and Supporting Vulnerable Households in Welfare Blind Spots” with KEPCO MCS Co., Ltd., becoming the first metropolitan government to do so.

KEPCO MCS Co., Ltd. (President Jung Sung-jin) is a public institution providing public services such as electricity meter reading, bill delivery, and delinquency management.

Based on mutual cooperation, the two organizations will actively work to discover and support vulnerable groups and crisis households, and establish a human safety net through the operation of a continuous discovery system for welfare blind spots in the region.

The main contents of the agreement include ▲appointing and supporting electricity managers as members of the crisis household discovery team ▲efforts to discover crisis households ▲linking public and private resources for crisis households ▲mutual cooperation to resolve welfare blind spots.

KEPCO MCS’s electricity managers will act as honorary social welfare officers of the crisis household discovery team, actively discovering vulnerable households in welfare blind spots during fieldwork and connecting them to autonomous districts.

The autonomous districts will promptly provide customized welfare services to resolve the crisis situations of the discovered subjects.

Since April, Gwangju City has been implementing the nation’s first “Gwangju-style Integrated Care,” which anyone can use when they need care regardless of income or disability status. With this agreement, it is expected that the care connection network utilizing KEPCO MCS’s electricity meter reading network will be further strengthened.

Jung Sung-jin, President of KEPCO MCS Co., Ltd., said, “We will systematize support projects for vulnerable groups’ care services and continue social contribution activities,” adding, “We will join hands with Gwangju City, which leads care welfare, and strive on the front lines for the happiness of the people.”

Kang Gi-jung, Mayor of Gwangju City, said, “The old method of waiting for citizens in crisis to apply for welfare services has its limits,” and added, “We will proactively discover neighbors in blind spots, and since Gwangju is implementing the spirit of ‘sharing and mutual care’ shown in May 1980 through Gwangju-style Integrated Care, we will join hands with KEPCO MCS Co., Ltd. to strengthen the local care connection network.”

Meanwhile, on the same day, Gwangju City hung the KEPCO MCS company flag on the flagpole in front of City Hall to express mutual cooperation and welcome. Gwangju City raises national flags of foreign dignitaries visiting Gwangju, as well as flags of companies, labor unions, self-governing organizations, and public institutions on commemorative days, demonstrating its character as an inclusive city.

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