Hwaseong City Senior Centers Complete Nonprofit Organization Registration

Hwaseong City announced on the 1st that it has completed the registration of all 547 senior centers (gyeongro-dang) in the region as nonprofit organizations on the 25th of last month with assistance from the Suwon Tax Office.

The city is currently distributing registration certificates to the senior center organizations.

Previously, whenever the representative (chairman) of a senior center changed, various inconveniences arose such as insurance re-enrollment and reissuance of subsidy account books.

While the city provides 6 to 7 million won in annual subsidies to each senior center in the region, the account books have been under the chairman's name rather than the senior center's name, causing significant difficulties in the succession process whenever the chairman changed, requiring reissuance of account books.

In particular, as subsidies were paid through accounts under the chairman's name, accounting and settlement issues between the city and senior centers sometimes caused friction.

An official from the Korean Senior Citizens Association Hwaseong Chapter said, "We are grateful that the city and tax office rolled up their sleeves to resolve a problem we had been concerned about for years," adding, "This provides an opportunity for senior centers to enhance transparency in their operations and to become desirable welfare spaces in the community."