Opening of Gangbuk-gu Youth Job Center and Single-Person Household Support Center

Two Facilities Established Together to Strengthen Support Linkage for Youth and Single-Person Households
Youth Job Center Operates Employment Counseling and Support Programs
Single-Person Household Support Center Offers Counseling, Education, and Leisure Culture Programs Specialized for Single-Person Households

Gangbuk-gu, Seoul (Mayor Lee Soon-hee) established the Gangbuk-gu Youth Job Center and the Single-Person Household Support Center in Mia-dong, Gangbuk-gu, and held an opening ceremony on the 23rd.

The Gangbuk-gu Youth Job Center and Single-Person Household Support Center (2nd floor, 28 Deokneung-ro 28-gil, Gangbuk-gu), located in the Mia-dong 160-26 area, is a facility of approximately 174㎡. Interior construction began in June last year and was completed in December last year.

The district prepared a plan to establish the two facilities together to strengthen support connections for youth and single-person households. After a pilot operation period of about three months from February this year, the official opening ceremony was held on the 23rd (Tuesday), and full operation began.

First, the Gangbuk-gu Youth Job Center is a specialized space for youth preparing for employment and career changes, providing employment counseling, employment support programs, and employment preparation spaces. It offers ▲1:1 career and employment counseling ▲career exploration through personality type tests (MBTI test) ▲Holland occupational preference test ▲AI-based self-introduction letter clinic and interview diagnosis on a regular basis, and opens a self-study space with multifunction printers and computers as well as a healing rest area to youth.

Additionally, educational programs such as mentoring by current workers, employment special lectures, resume and self-introduction letter lectures, NCS exam preparation lectures, youth economic lectures, and healing leisure programs are operated monthly.

The Gangbuk-gu Single-Person Household Support Center is a facility that activates social networks within the community for single-person households at different life stages and operates various programs such as counseling, education, and leisure culture programs for single-person households.

Specialized programs such as ‘Ppukku Day - Would you like to have a meal together?’ where single-person households gather once a month to cook, eat, and interact are operated, and diverse programs such as ▲financial management program ‘Ppuja Dwaeseyo’ ▲self-interior and home repair program ‘Ppukku House - Smart Self Home Repair’ ▲community exploration program ‘Our Neighborhood Photographer’ to visit and learn about the Gangbuk-gu area are also planned.

Operating hours are weekdays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. For detailed information such as program applications, please contact the Gangbuk-gu Youth Job Center or the Gangbuk-gu Single-Person Household Support Center.

Lee Soon-hee, Mayor of Gangbuk-gu, said, “The joint establishment of the Youth Job Center and the Single-Person Household Support Center is to provide closer support as the number of young single-person households is rapidly increasing,” and added, “We will operate these two facilities solidly so that they can support youth and also single-person households of middle-aged and other generations, becoming a place that can help many residents.”

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