Gangnam-gu Opens New Self-Sufficiency Project 'Monttang Mandu'

Gangnam-gu Opens New Self-Support Project ‘Mongttang Mandu’

New project this year: Dumpling specialty store opened on the 13th in Irwon 1-dong Food Alley... Providing jobs for low-income groups and boosting self-reliance motivation

Gangnam-gu (District Mayor Jo Seong-myeong) opened a dumpling and snack specialty store, ‘Mongttang Mandu’ (Yangjae-daero 53-gil 13), on the 13th as a new self-support project this year.

The self-support work project provides various jobs to basic livelihood security recipients and lower-income groups to encourage self-support motivation and improve self-reliance capabilities. Gangnam-gu operates a total of 17 self-support project groups, including Mongttang Mandu, The Masil Cafe, Mom’s Table, and Saessak Convenience Store, providing jobs to about 200 people in total.

At the beginning of this year, the district formed the Mongttang Mandu project group to promote a new self-support project. ‘Mongttang Mandu’ is a Food One franchise that sells simple snack menus such as dumplings and tteokbokki.

The dumpling specialty store was chosen as a food service business that has steady popularity among consumers and can be operated in a small space. With a business plan considering product competitiveness, marketability, profitability, and stability, it was finally selected in a public contest by the Korea Self-Support Welfare Development Institute and received about 28 million KRW in remodeling construction costs in March.

The business located adjacent to Irwon 1-dong Food Alley opened on the 13th, providing jobs to three low-income individuals. The store size is 42㎡, and business hours are from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Once the business stabilizes, as part of a public interest project, it plans to provide free store meals once a week to 20 low-income single-person households. Self-support workers will deliver the food directly while also checking on the vulnerable groups’ well-being.

Jo Seong-myeong, Mayor of Gangnam-gu, said, “We are continuously discovering new self-support projects to provide new jobs for low-income residents,” and added, “We will actively support self-support workers to become independent through continuous training and skill improvement.”

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.