What Are the Policy Changes in Mapo-gu in 2024?

Publication of e-book "New Changes in Mapo 2024" via District Website, Including 21 Projects with 6 New Initiatives... Support for Delivery Workers, Opening of Disabled Arts School and Mapo Nugu Naru Movement Center

Mapo-gu (District Mayor Park Gang-su) will publish and widely promote '2024 Newly Changing Mapo,' which allows residents to easily check the policies and systems newly implemented or changed this year.

Scheduled to be released as an e-book on the 17th, '2024 Newly Changing Mapo' includes a total of 21 changed policies and administrative services across four fields: welfare (13), economy (4), environment (2), and health (2), including six new projects.

Above all, projects aimed at the priority value of the 8th local government term, ‘Walking Together with the Vulnerable,’ will be expanded. The scale of the ‘Resident Participation Filial Piety Meal’ project, which provides lunch and health and welfare checks for seniors aged 75 and older, will be increased. Based on the ‘Side Dish Factory’ scheduled for completion in March, 32 new meal service institutions will be added, enabling a total of about 1,500 people to use the filial piety meal service at 49 meal institutions by the end of the year.

A path has also opened to support platform delivery workers who work in poor conditions. Delivery workers residing in Mapo-gu or working at platform companies located in Mapo-gu who register for job seeking at the Mapo Job Center (1st floor of Mapo-gu Office) will receive five months of workers’ compensation insurance premiums (employee portion) and safety supplies for summer and winter.

In the first half of this year, the Mapo Disabled Arts School (tentative name) will open. It will provide a place where disabled people with artistic talents can develop their abilities and grow.

Additionally, an electronic newspaper subscription service for the disabled will be introduced for the first time this year. For 250 disabled subscribers who apply for the newspaper subscription, the latest social and welfare policy news will be sent five times a week via Kakao AlimTalk, text message, or email. In particular, the electronic newspaper features an AI voice support function that reads articles aloud, which is expected to be very useful for visually impaired, low-vision, and elderly disabled individuals in accessing information.

Moreover, childbirth and childcare benefits have also increased. Parental allowances for children aged 0 to 1 have been raised from 700,000 KRW to 1,000,000 KRW per month (age 0) and from 350,000 KRW to 500,000 KRW per month (age 1). For infant-exclusive childcare support (from 3 months to under 36 months), starting this year, the service will be expanded to include accompaniment to and from daycare and hospital visits (for sick children).

The ‘Mapo Anyone Sports Center’ is also scheduled to open in March this year. Located in the Gongdeok SK Leaders View shopping complex, it allows exercise regardless of weather conditions and is equipped with digital exercise programs and the latest digital exercise equipment, making it enjoyable for both disabled and non-disabled people.

Other additional changes include increases in veterans’ allowances, changes in the selection criteria for basic livelihood and housing benefits, expanded support for youth employment preparation costs, increases in the living wage, and energy voucher support. Detailed information on these projects can be found on the Mapo-gu website.

Park Gang-su, Mayor of Mapo-gu, said, “Various projects for Mapo residents have been newly prepared this year,” and added, “We ask for the residents’ great interest in 『2024 Newly Changing Mapo』, and we will do our best to improve the quality of life for residents through active promotion of district administration and project implementation throughout the year.”

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