'Start! Health Exercise' Program Creates Momentum for Active Lifestyles

Hwaseong City Bundang Resident Health Support Center will operate 'Start! Health Exercise' program from the 18th through November 4th every Tuesday and Friday from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. to cultivate residents' self-health management abilities and promote a culture of active exercise practice.

This program, which emphasizes easy-to-follow stretching and strength-building exercises and includes easy aerobics, has been designed to increase exercise participation rates by enabling residents to consistently exercise for at least 30 minutes per session, twice weekly, in collaboration with the Hwaseong branch of the National Health Insurance Service. It aims to improve preventive-focused health behaviors and spread a culture of health practice in the local community.

In particular, the program will not only enhance individual commitment to health practice but will also conduct pre and post body composition tests and health awareness improvement surveys. Plans include improving program satisfaction evaluations through comparative assessments of health behavior awareness improvement rates and pre and post body composition test comparisons.

Choi Jong-sook, director of the Bundang Resident Health Support Center, stated, "In the case of Hwaseong City, obesity awareness rates are higher than the Gyeonggi Province average, yet exercise participation rates fall short of the provincial average. We will make our best efforts to activate obesity management programs so that local residents can improve their self-health management abilities and enjoy healthy and vibrant lives."

The 'Start! Health Exercise' program will commence on the 18th and will be operated in the grand hall of the Bundang Resident Health Support Center for 30 weeks over 7 months (60 sessions total), and anyone can participate. Interested residents or those with questions can contact the Health Management team at the Bundang Resident Health Support Center at (031-369-6212).