Organizing 'Warmly' While Cultivating 'Warm Experts'

Dongseo University Launches 'Warm Organization' Project for Vulnerable Groups to Promote Space Healing
Providing Organization and Storage Education to Multicultural Marriage Immigrants ... Training Home Organization Experts

At a house in Mora-dong, Sasang-gu, Busan, the first target of the "Warm Organizing" project promoted by Dongseo University and the Korea Space Consulting Association, organizing and storage experts, trainees, and vulnerable families took a commemorative photo together.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] As winter cold arrives and people spend more time at home due to COVID-19, a special project has emerged that brings warm comfort by cleaning the homes of vulnerable groups.

It is a project that ‘warmly’ organizes homes while also nurturing workers who ‘warmly’ organize.

The LINC+ Project Group at Dongseo University (President Jang Je-guk), together with the Korea Space Consulting Association (Chairman Eom Yoon-sun), launched the ‘Warm Organizing’ project to help create a comfortable ‘stay-at-home’ life. The first beneficiary household, the ‘No. 1 family,’ was born in early December in Mora-dong, Sasang-gu, Busan.

The Warm Organizing project, involving Professor Kim Hyung-sook and students from the Department of Design at Dongseo University, initially targeted the rapidly increasing multicultural marriage immigrants.

They helped improve residential environments through organizing and storage education and demonstrations. This was a community contribution program aimed at helping them live as healthy members of Korean society.

This project is meaningful in that it established a link connecting two groups in need of sharing and care. It trains multicultural marriage immigrants as organizing professionals while improving the living environments of vulnerable groups, also aiming to create jobs. It builds solidarity where universities and local communities empathize with difficulties together.

The two institutions participating in the ‘Warm’ project plan to continuously conduct training to cultivate organizing and storage experts and to develop derivative warm organizing projects.

The goal is to educate multicultural marriage immigrants to acquire the organizing and storage master course and to create a virtuous cycle contributing to the birth of the 2nd and 3rd warm organizing households.

Eom Yoon-sun, Chairman of the Korea Space Consulting Association, explained, “Organizing and storage means efficiently arranging space to create a hygienic and productive environment that improves quality of life, and furthermore, through minimalism, suggests a direction for a happier life.”

Chairman Eom said, “We will nurture multicultural marriage immigrants as professionals, improve the living environments of vulnerable groups, and work together for the mutual development of the local community.”

Kim Hyung-woo, Director of the Dongseo University Regional Cooperation Center, said, “We will achieve mutual development with multicultural marriage immigrants and vulnerable groups in the western Busan area by utilizing the infrastructure possessed by the university,” adding, “We plan to continuously operate the project by opening organizing and storage expert courses in connection with the Dongseo University Social Education Center.”