Seoul Welfare Foundation Holds 20th Anniversary International Forum

The Seoul Welfare Foundation announced on the 7th that it will hold the "Seoul Welfare Foundation 20th Anniversary Ceremony and International Forum to Explore the Direction of Future Welfare" on the 8th at the Grand Ballroom of the Federation of Korean Industries Building.

Under the theme of "Exploring Sustainable Inclusive Welfare Policies in the New Normal Era," this forum will begin with congratulatory speeches from Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon and Seoul City Health and Welfare Committee Chairman Kang Seok-ju. Experts and scholars from Germany, the United Kingdom, and Denmark will share welfare issues and policies from their respective countries and discuss future welfare models.

The keynote speech marking the start of the forum will be delivered by Professor Philip Manu, a social policy professor at the University of Bremen, Germany, on the topic of "Development of the Korean Welfare State, Growth Regime, and International Division of Labor from a Comparative Perspective." This will be followed by presentations from Karima Issert, former team leader of the Social Department of Copenhagen Municipality, Denmark; Neil Lunt, professor of social policy at the University of York, UK; and Ryu Myung-seok, head of policy research at the Seoul Welfare Foundation.

Former team leader Karima Issert will present on "Social Welfare Services for People with Disabilities in Denmark," Professor Neil Lunt will discuss "British Social Welfare and the Elderly: The Lost 20 Years?," and Director Ryu Myung-seok will speak on "Directions of Seoul’s Welfare Policy and the Foundation’s Current Projects."

Following this, Professor Lee Sung-kyu of the Department of Social Welfare at the University of Seoul will chair a session with Professor Kim Won-seop of the Department of Sociology at Korea University, Professor Park Kyung-sook of the Department of Social Welfare at Kyonggi University, and Dean Kim Chan-woo of the Graduate School of Social Welfare at Catholic University. They will engage in a free discussion with the presenters and respond to questions from forum participants on-site.

In the second part, the Seoul Welfare Foundation (hereafter the Foundation), celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, will hold a "Vision Declaration Ceremony" for new innovation and leap forward. Additionally, a new CI symbolizing the Foundation’s image as a leader in future welfare will be unveiled. The new CI reveals the meaning of circulation and coexistence through an organic combination of the initials SWF of the Seoul Welfare Foundation, embodying the value of realizing community-centered universal welfare.

Kim Sang-chul, CEO of the Seoul Welfare Foundation, stated, “Like the Hope Plus Account, which started in Seoul and has now expanded nationwide, the Foundation has planned and operated various Seoul-type welfare services responding to new welfare demands based on welfare policy research over the past 20 years.” He added, “In a rapidly changing environment, we will do our best to create a happy welfare Seoul for citizens under a new vision and strategy, strengthening customized welfare services that accompany the vulnerable so that citizens can live with peace of mind.”

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