"Feeling the Pulse, Learning Acupoints... Today, I'm a Traditional Korean Medicine Doctor!"

Yeongcheon City's Traditional Korean Medicine Career Experience Program for Children Gains Popularity

The "I Want to Be a Traditional Korean Medicine Doctor" program, a career experience for children operated by the Yeongcheon City Traditional Korean Medicine Vitality Plus Center (hereafter referred to as the center), is drawing strong interest from local parents and children.

On March 18, Yeongcheon City announced that the program, designed to help children become familiar with traditional Korean medicine and to offer them opportunities for career exploration, is being successfully operated.

Children are participating in a career experience activity as traditional Korean medicine doctors in a program operated by the Yeongcheon City Korean Medicine Revitalization Plus Center. Provided by Yeongcheon City

The center was established as a hub facility for the Rural Vitality Plus Project and opened in June of last year.

To invigorate the region by utilizing local traditional medicine resources, the center offers hands-on experiences and educational content such as making diffusers, traditional herbal teas, and medicinal liquors.

This program is a specialized hands-on activity designed to help children easily and enjoyably understand traditional Korean medicine and experience the work of a traditional Korean medicine doctor.

It is held on the second and fourth Thursday of each month, from March to November, with Heon-tae Shin, the director of Yeongcheon Sin Korean Medicine Clinic, directly participating as an instructor.

The experience consists of the following activities: ▲Learning about the work of a traditional Korean medicine doctor ▲Feeling the position and rhythm of the wrist pulse ▲Understanding the human body and acupuncture points using a meridian doll ▲Applying acupressure stickers, among others.

Participating children wear a doctor's gown and directly experience the fundamental principles of traditional Korean medicine and the examination process.

In particular, the "experience using a meridian doll" captured great interest by helping children easily understand the structure of the body and the principles of health.

Additionally, in the "pulse-taking experience," children could feel their own pulse and found it exciting to try a doctor's diagnostic method, which received a very positive response.

An official from the center stated, "We designed this specialized hands-on program so that children can become familiar with traditional medicine and naturally deepen their understanding of the body and health. As Yeongcheon is a special zone for the traditional medicine industry, our city will continue to operate various programs utilizing traditional medicine resources and further develop them into representative local experiences."

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