[Photo] Lee Gijae, Yangcheon District Mayor, Provides On-site Briefing to President Yoon Seok-yeol Visiting Sinwol-dong Deep Rainwater Tunnel

[Seoul District Photo News] Yongsan-gu Signs MOU with (Sa) Together Love Field to Support 650 Vulnerable Elderly with Health Porridge, Ready Meals, and Patch Boxes ... Yangcheon-gu Energy Self-Reliant Village Hosts Energy Day Event 'Turn Off the Lights, Turn On the Stars' ... Oh Seung-rok, Nowon-gu Mayor, Attends Nowon Writers' Association Poetry Exhibition Opening Ceremony 'Poetry, Wearing Clothes'

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Lee Gijae, Mayor of Yangcheon-gu (far left), gave an on-site briefing to President Yoon Seok-yeol (center) on the afternoon of the 23rd during his visit to the Sinwol-dong Deep Underground Rainwater Tunnel (underground storage facility).

On this day, President Yoon, who conducted a focused inspection of the facility's operational status and functions along with Mayor Lee, instructed to establish a flood forecasting and warning system using advanced science and technology and to expand water disaster prevention infrastructure to prepare a long-term flood control plan.

The Sinwol-dong Rainwater Storage and Drainage Facility, with a storage capacity of 320,000 tons, is the first underground storage facility in Korea. During heavy rains, it stores rainwater from nearby areas such as Sinwol-dong and Hwagok-dong and discharges it into the Anyangcheon Stream through a pumping station after the rain stops. Since the facility began operation in 2020, the scale of flood damage in the Sinwol-dong area of Yangcheon-gu, which had repeatedly suffered from flooding, has drastically decreased.

Yongsan-gu (Mayor Park Hee-young) signed a business agreement on the 22nd with the nonprofit organization ‘Together Love Field’ (CEO Park Hee-chul) to mutually cooperate in spreading a culture of sharing for the welfare improvement of marginalized groups.

Subsequently, the two organizations held a delivery ceremony for support items for the elderly in celebration of Chuseok, agreeing to provide support items from ‘Together Love Field’ to 650 vulnerable elderly residents in the area.

The support boxes included health porridge, convenient meal rice bowls, coffee sets, and patches. The district community centers plan to deliver daily necessities boxes worth a total of 20 million KRW to 650 elderly people aged 65 or older who are basic livelihood security recipients or vulnerable seniors.

Park Hee-young, Mayor of Yongsan-gu, said, “In these difficult times with COVID-19 and rising prices, nothing is more powerful than warm hearts coming together. I hope this support brings joy to the elderly, and the district will continue to pay attention to ensure no neighbors are left out in the blind spots through ‘welfare together.’”

On the evening of the 22nd, at Mokdong 8th Complex Apartment, an energy self-sufficient village in Yangcheon-gu (Mayor Lee Gijae), the 19th Energy Day event titled ‘Turn off the lights and turn on the stars’ was held.

About 100 residents of Mokdong 8th Complex Apartment participated in this event, which included a fan-making class, distribution of LED candles, an energy-saving campaign (Eco Mileage), and a veranda outdoor concert, concluding with a nationwide simultaneous lights-off event.

On the 23rd at 5 p.m., Oh Seung-rok, Mayor of Nowon-gu, attended the opening ceremony of the Nowon Writers Association Poetry and Painting Exhibition ‘Poetry, Wearing Clothes’ held at the 4th floor Art Gallery of Nowon Cultural and Arts Center.

This exhibition prepared a total of 56 collaborative works combining poems created by 56 members of the Nowon Writers Association and Nowon-gu Silver Cafe with paintings by local artists.

The opening ceremony proceeded with guest introductions, congratulatory speeches, commemorative photos, and artwork introductions. The exhibition will run until September 1st.

Mayor Oh Seung-rok said, “I hope this exhibition becomes a time to gift a poem that gives hope to the residents. We will continue to prepare various exhibitions to make Nowon a place where culture flows in the daily lives of residents.”