Osan City held a "Couples' Love Retreat" aimed at resolving conflicts between spouses and fostering understanding, respect, and happiness in healthy families, the city announced on the 14th.
To commemorate Couples Day on the 21st of this month, the retreat was held over one night and two days from the 12th to 13th at Baekdamsa Manhae Village in Inje-gun, Gangwon Province, with 40 couples totaling 80 residents in attendance.
The program featured various activities to strengthen spousal bonds, including lectures on building trust between couples and creating healthy family structures, maximizing happiness through establishing desirable couple relationships, and tours of Baekdamsa Temple with opportunities to create memories.
In 1995, the government designated May 21st as Couples Day—meaning "two becoming one"—and designated it as a national commemoration day starting in 2004. Since then, various family policy projects have been promoted to preserve households and enable husbands and wives to express their feelings toward each other.
Osan City first established the "Couples' Love Retreat" program in 1999, with 35 couples attending in the inaugural year. Through this year's 14th iteration, the city has provided programs helping 495 couples totaling 990 people reflect on spousal love and the meaning of family.
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