Dongjak-gu Assigns Detailed Addresses to Middle-aged and Older Single-person Households

[Seoul District News] Dongjak-gu Supports Households Without Dong/Floor/Unit Addresses in Gosiwon and Multi-family Houses to Ease Resident Inconvenience; Detailed Address Plates Distributed for Convenient Parcel/Mail Receipt and Emergency Rescue... Dobong-gu Announces ‘Carbon Neutral Lifestyle Practice Expansion Subsidy Project’ for Civic Groups

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] The address of Grandma Kim Jeong-seop (87), who lives in a multi-family house in Bon-dong, Dongjak-gu, is "Bon-dong OO-beonji basement right side." Multi-family houses lack detailed addresses like apartment building, floor, and unit numbers, making it difficult for mail to be delivered correctly or for disaster authorities to locate the exact position in emergencies.

Dongjak-gu (Mayor Lee Chang-woo) announced on the 4th that since last month, it has been identifying middle-aged and elderly single-person households like Grandma Kim who suffer inconvenience due to the lack of detailed addresses, and has been implementing the "assignment of detailed addresses and production/distribution of detailed address plates."

The detailed address assignment system grants detailed addresses to studio apartments or multi-family houses, similar to apartments, and uses them as legal addresses.

Last month, the district visited buildings where middle-aged and elderly single-person households registered in the "Seoul Salpimi App" (a non-face-to-face welfare check service) lived in multi-family houses without detailed addresses, assigning detailed addresses to a total of 206 households and attaching 89 detailed address plates at entrances.

The district plans to assign detailed addresses to a total of 2,500 households this year, including goshiwon (small dormitory rooms) and one-room apartments, and produce and distribute 2,000 detailed address plates.

Jin Chun-duk, a mail carrier at Dongjak Post Office, said, "Bon-dong area has many old houses and various building entrances per household, so it used to take a long time to find the location of individual unit numbers when delivering mail. Since attaching the detailed address plates, cases of mail being misdelivered have decreased."

With this detailed address assignment, the district plans to promote resident registration changes through designated guardians or welfare planners at the community service center and expand the social safety net for marginalized groups in administrative blind spots.

For detailed information about applying for detailed addresses, please contact the Real Estate Information Division.

Oh Bok-seok, head of the Real Estate Information Division, said, "Detailed addresses are necessary to resolve inconveniences caused by returned or lost mail and parcels or difficulty finding internal building locations in emergencies. Residents who have not yet applied for detailed addresses are encouraged to actively apply and use the system."

Meanwhile, this year, building numbers and detailed addresses can be applied for simultaneously and received at once, and the processing period has been drastically reduced from 28 days to 10 days.

Dobong-gu (Mayor Lee Dong-jin) is calling for applications from civic groups for the "2022 Local Subsidy Project in the Environmental Sector" to promote carbon-neutral lifestyle practices.

The application fields are ▲Promotion of carbon-neutral lifestyle practices ▲Creation of carbon sinks ▲Management of carbon emission sources, totaling three areas.

The "Promotion of carbon-neutral lifestyle practices" involves conducting a signature campaign for the "Dobong-gu Residents' Pledge to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 4 Tons per Person" at multi-use facilities or apartment complexes to encourage active participation in carbon-neutral lifestyle practices. Support is provided up to 15 million KRW, varying by organization.

The carbon sink creation field includes projects such as creating green curtains and green spaces for carbon absorption, with support up to 4.6 million KRW, while the carbon emission source management field supports projects monitoring facilities emitting large amounts of carbon and environmental pollution acts, with support up to 2 million KRW.

Applicants must be non-profit corporations (organizations) or environmental groups with at least 50 members, located in Dobong-gu, and intending to carry out environmental conservation projects. The application period is from 9 a.m. on March 7, 2022, to 6 p.m. on March 14, 2022. Applications must be submitted in person to the Environmental Policy Division of Dobong-gu Office with the required documents.

Final support decisions will be made by the "Dobong-gu Local Subsidy Management Committee" at the end of March 2022, considering the appropriateness of the project plan and the self-funding ratio. Detailed information about this public offering, including application documents, can be found on the Dobong-gu website (Notification/Budget section → Notice Board → Announcements).

Lee Dong-jin, Mayor of Dobong-gu, said, "Carbon neutrality requires active cooperation between the public and private sectors above all else. Therefore, I ask for the residents' great interest and participation in spreading carbon-neutral lifestyle practices again this year."