Rising as a Yoseknam!... Gwangjin-gu Recruiting 1st Cohort of 'Happy Youth Apron' for Middle-Aged Men

Applications open until the 27th, first-come-first-served basis, for single-person households or retired (or soon-to-retire) middle-aged men
4 sessions in total, free tuition · material cost 7,000 KRW per session to be paid by participant

Gwangjin-gu (Mayor Kim Kyung-ho) is helping middle-aged men at a life transition stage escape from being cooking beginners and promoting a happy and healthy dietary culture.

'Happy Youth Apron' is a program that provides nutrition education and cooking practice with easy-to-use home menus for middle-aged men who are unfamiliar with cooking and rely on eating out or delivery food.

The recruitment target is 15 middle-aged men who live alone or are retired (or about to retire). The program runs every Tuesday in March from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Nutrition Education Room on the first floor of Jayang Health Center.

This program is operated over a total of four sessions.

In the first session, participants learn nutrition education for forming proper eating habits and how to handle and use ingredients for those unfamiliar with cooking. The cooking practice includes making pork and quail egg jangjorim and perilla leaf kimchi.

In the second session, participants learn about composing a healthy diet and selecting foods, and cook mushroom beef bulgogi nutritious rice and radish salad. The third and fourth sessions focus on healthy meals using seasonal ingredients, making seasoned braised tofu, wild chive and shepherd's purse soybean paste soup, and vegetable-rich webfoot octopus rice bowl, respectively.

Each session includes nutrition education to form proper eating habits and reduce nutritional gaps, as well as various cooking experiences from ingredient preparation to using seasonal ingredients, aiming to reduce middle-aged men's aversion to cooking and help improve healthy eating habits.

The first term of this program, held twice in the first and second half of the year, is recruiting on a first-come, first-served basis until February 27. The course fee is free, and the material cost is 7,000 KRW per session, borne by the participant.

Applications can be made by visiting the Metabolic Syndrome Management Center on the first floor of Jayang Health Center and paying the material fee.

Kim Kyung-ho, Mayor of Gwangjin-gu, said, "We have prepared nutrition education and cooking experience classes from the basics for middle-aged men to develop proper eating habits," and added, "I hope they gain vitality in life and communicate with neighbors through cooking."

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