‘Visiting Filial Piety Counseling Room’… Park Hee-young, Yongsan District Mayor, Visits 90 Senior Centers

Yongsan-gu, Seoul (District Mayor Park Hee-young) announced on the 3rd that the "Visiting Filial Piety Counseling Office," which started on the 4th of last month, has been operating until the 12th of this month and has received great response.

Park Hee-young, Mayor of Yongsan District (right), is greeting the elderly at the Bokwang-dong Usadan Senior Center's "Visiting Filial Piety Counseling Room" site. Provided by Yongsan District.

The Filial Piety Counseling Office is a place where the stories of elderly users at 90 senior centers are heard and counseling is provided. Park Hee-young, mayor of Yongsan-gu, has toured 15 out of the 16 neighborhoods and now has only one neighborhood left.

At the Filial Piety Counseling Office, answers tailored to the elderly’s perspective were provided for various questions ranging from major district projects to daily life concerns such as fines imposed by the district office. In addition, information was provided regarding the expansion of lunch service at senior centers to 5 days in 2025, the recruitment of lunch managers, recommendations for flu and shingles vaccinations for the elderly, and schedules for safety inspections of senior center facilities.

Yongsan-gu plans to provide lunch five days a week at all senior centers in the area starting next year and aims to expand the number of lunch managers and helpers to 290. A pilot operation began in July this year. Free shingles vaccinations will also be provided to elderly residents aged 75 and older who have no history of shingles vaccination by the end of the year. Disinfection of senior centers will also be conducted.

Mayor Park Hee-young said, “Before the full onset of winter, we visited senior centers to provide guidance on winter health care for the elderly and the expansion of lunch service next year, among other necessary matters,” and added, “We hope that through this Filial Piety Counseling Office, the elderly’s interest in district administration and participation in welfare projects will increase.”

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