Boseong-gun Supports Standing Tables for Senior Centers

Protect Your Knees, Eat Meals, and Attend Lectures

Boseong-gun, Jeollanam-do announced that it will expand the ‘Standing Table Support Project for Senior Centers’ as a new senior welfare policy in 2024.

According to the county, it plans to invest 330 million KRW from its own budget in 2024 to provide 4-person foldable standing tables and chairs to 373 senior centers that wish to install them out of a total of 449 locations across 12 eup and myeon in the jurisdiction.

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This support for senior centers is the result of actively reflecting residents’ opinions gathered through ‘Dialogue with Citizens’ and ‘On-site Inspections of Senior Centers’ conducted earlier this year.

Boseong-gun expects that by providing foldable standing tables, it will alleviate the discomfort seniors experience with floor-sitting culture and will be utilized during meals, village meetings, visiting Korean language classes, and eup/myeon cardiovascular disease prevention education programs held at senior centers.

Antakjo, head of Beolgyo Senior Center in Beolgyo-eup, said, “It is more comfortable because we can sit on chairs, protect our knees, eat meals, and attend lectures, doing various activities. Many people had difficulty standing up and sitting down repeatedly, so it is really good that the senior center environment has improved.”

Meanwhile, through the ‘2023 Jeollanam-do Senior Center Standing Table Project,’ Boseong-gun secured 12 million KRW in project funds and distributed standing tables and chairs to 10 representative senior centers, excluding two already installed locations in Boknae-myeon and Ungchi-myeon.

Boseong = Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Park Cheon-seok hss79@asiae.co.kr

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