Yongin City Provides 48.2 Billion KRW to Improve Quality of Kindergarten and School Meals

18.% Increase Compared to Last Year... 125,000 Beneficiaries in 219 Schools
12.4 Billion Invested in Supporting Eco-Friendly Agricultural Products and Seasonal Fruits

Yongin City in Gyeonggi Province announced on the 27th that it will support a budget of 48.2 billion KRW this year to improve the quality of meals in kindergartens and schools within the region.

This amount is approximately 18% higher compared to last year's 40.8 billion KRW. The city explained that with this budget support, 125,336 students attending 219 kindergartens and elementary, middle, and high schools in the area will benefit.

School meal costs are shared by three institutions: Yongin City, Gyeonggi Province, and the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education, at rates of 36%, 14%, and 50%, respectively, to support free meals for students in the region.

Separately, the city has allocated a budget of 4.071 billion KRW to implement a project supporting eco-friendly premium agricultural products for school meals to improve meal quality. This project subsidizes part of the purchase amount for each school to use eco-friendly premium agricultural products in school meals. A total of 172 schools participate, including 5 kindergartens, 165 elementary, middle, and high schools, and 2 special schools in the region.

Additionally, 1.1 billion KRW will be invested in a fruit snack support project supplying 36,282 children at 728 locations, including local children's centers, daycare centers, and home care children. Since last year, 140 million KRW has also been provided to purchase fruit snacks supplied to kindergarten children to ensure that high-quality seasonal fruits are supplied to the children.

A city official stated, "We will expand support for eco-friendly school meals to provide safe and healthy food to children, who are the future leaders."

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