Suwon's Paldal-gu District Head Sang-gyun Lee Makes New Year's Site Visits

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Jun-sung Jung] Sang-gyun Lee, district head of Paldal-gu, Suwon, visited the Korean Senior Citizens Association Paldal-gu Branch (Branch Chief Byung-hak Lee) and Donggwang-won, a child welfare facility (Facility Director Ok-jae Lee), on the 2nd to celebrate the new year of the Year of the Snake.

District Head Lee's visit to the Korean Senior Citizens Association was planned to comfort and support seniors, as the proportion of elderly residents (age 65 and over) in Suwon exceeds 14% based on last year's figures, and in Paldal-gu, 33,381 people, representing 20% of the city's total 167,204 elderly residents, live in the district.

On the day, District Head Sang-gyun Lee stated, "Paldal-gu has many economically disadvantaged elderly residents, so we plan to establish customized elderly policies for low-income seniors and to maintain continuous communication with the Korean Senior Citizens Association Paldal-gu Branch to strengthen leisure activity support for seniors at senior centers."

Additionally, the district head instructed relevant departments to support simplified subsidy policies for the operation of 93 senior centers within the district, and pledged to consistently operate elderly leisure programs held at senior universities and senior centers throughout the year.

He then visited Donggwang-won, which protects approximately 50 children, and carefully inspected the children's living environment and facility safety during the winter season. Additionally, the district head emphasized to facility officials that he will establish the New Light child care policy to ensure children grow up healthy while feeling loved and not marginalized in society, support children's independence, and will not spare administrative support for the facility's stable operations.

District Head Sang-gyun Lee said, "Through this visit, I felt once again the responsibility we must fulfill to ensure that our area's elderly residents and children can live in a better environment," and added, "We will establish customized support projects that satisfy all generations from age 0 to 100 so that children grow up safely and happily, elderly residents enjoy a healthy and happy later life, and make 2025 a year of transformative administrative innovation that all Paldal-gu residents can experience."