What’s Changing in Gangseo-gu This Year... Including 'Household Care Support for Pregnant Women'

Selection of 40 Projects in 5 Major Areas... E-book Access Available

Installation plan for the Safety Education Center Experience Room. (Data provided by Gangseo-gu Office)

Gangseo-gu, Seoul (Mayor Jin Gyo-hoon) announced on the 12th the "Gangseo District Administration Changes in 2024," which compiles the newly introduced and revised policies for this year.

A total of 40 projects across five major areas are included: ▲4 in education and culture ▲16 in welfare and health ▲7 in economy and environment ▲7 in safety and transportation ▲6 in administration and daily life. Especially this year, a large number of projects with high resident impact will be promoted in the welfare and health, and safety and transportation sectors.

Gangseo Starry Sky Astronomy Museum, operation of a small library specialized in pregnancy, childbirth, and childcare, and the SgakSgak Festa with seasonal themes held every season

Since its official opening in November last year, the exhibition hall of the Gangseo Starry Sky Astronomy Museum has permanent exhibitions on the Big Bang, the life cycle of stars, the solar system, and space exploration. The planetarium with a 10-meter dome screen offers mysterious video screenings along with various programs such as Saturday Star Concerts and Sunday Appreciation Sessions.

The small library at Hwagok 6-dong Community Center will be newly reborn as a small library specialized in pregnancy, childbirth, and childcare with the relocation to a new building in July this year. It will be designed as a comfortable space for pregnant women, infants, and family visitors, and will be stocked with various books and picture books related to pregnancy, prenatal education, and childcare.

The "SgakSgak Festa," featuring themed performances suitable for each season, will be held to provide residents with rich cultural experiences.

Support for housekeeping care services for pregnant women, designation and operation of Gangseo Moonlight Children's Hospital, expansion of Gangseo Youth Nest Project

Starting in April this year, housekeeping care services will be provided to all pregnant women residing in Gangseo-gu to support safe and comfortable childbirth. Housekeeping helpers will offer basic services such as cleaning, laundry, and dishwashing, as well as hospital accompaniment services. Any pregnant woman living in Gangseo-gu can use the service regardless of income, and only 10% of the usage fee is self-paid. The service can be used up to six times, with a maximum of 4 hours per day.

The "Our Child Safe Clinic" and "Moonlight Children's Hospital" will be designated and operated to improve the childcare environment, allowing sick children to receive medical care safely during weekday nights and weekends.

The Our Child Safe Clinic is staffed by pediatric specialists who treat sick children on weekday evenings. "Rodem Pediatrics and Adolescents" located in Magok-dong has been designated and will provide care until 9 PM on weekdays. The Moonlight Children's Hospital offers medical services for mild pediatric patients on weekends. It operates from 8:30 AM to 6:30 PM on weekends and public holidays, with "Yonsei Clinic" in Hwagok-dong designated for this service.

Providing prompt medical services on weekday evenings and weekends is expected to ease parents' concerns and help reduce overcrowding in hospital emergency rooms.

The "Gangseo Youth Nest Project," which supports low-income single young households with various food and daily necessities packages, will be further expanded this year. The project helps young people become independent by providing donated goods and sponsorship items from companies and organizations to low-income youth.

Operation of neighborhood pet boarding facilities, installation of fine dust alert devices, creation of barrier-free forest trails in Ujangsan

Starting in March, the "Neighborhood Pet Boarding Facility" will operate to allow vulnerable groups to safely leave their pets when they go on long trips or are hospitalized. Residents from vulnerable groups such as basic livelihood security recipients, lower-income households, and single-parent families who own pets like dogs or cats can use this service. The protection period is up to 20 days, and boarding fees are supported to allow vulnerable groups to use the service without financial burden.

Additional fine dust alert devices will be installed to provide real-time information on fine dust levels. This will help residents, including the elderly, who have difficulty checking air quality information.

A barrier-free forest trail will be created in Ujangsan for the elderly, disabled, and others to use without restrictions. The trail will be a low-gradient circular path, renovated from damaged walking paths caused by indiscriminate shortcut trails, making it easy for mobility-impaired individuals to use. Along the 1,270-meter section, the barrier-free forest trail will include a bare-foot path made of loess soil and foot-washing facilities for added convenience.

The celestial projection room of Gangseo Starlight Space Science Center.

Strengthening autonomous crime prevention activities for community safety, automatic enrollment in life safety insurance for all residents, operation of an experience-based safety education center

Vulnerable areas are selected through crime risk analysis systems and resident surveys, and 20 to 30 autonomous crime prevention volunteers per neighborhood patrol not only residential areas but also trails and parks intensively. To strengthen the capabilities of the autonomous crime prevention teams and ensure safety, self-defense training will be conducted jointly with Gangseo Police Station in the first and second halves of the year.

All residents of Gangseo-gu will be enrolled in life safety insurance. The existing Seoul Citizen Safety Insurance covers injuries from traffic accidents in school zones and silver zones, deaths and injuries during public transportation use, etc. In addition, Gangseo-gu life safety insurance provides extra coverage such as disability after injury, diagnostic fees for injury accidents, burn surgery costs, and treatment costs for injuries from public transportation accidents.

In April this year, the Gangseo Safety Experience Center (tentative name), an experience-based safety education center, will open inside Balsan Neighborhood Park. The three-story building with a total floor area of 3,825㎡ will operate six experience zones covering ▲traffic safety ▲natural disasters ▲fire safety ▲health safety ▲social infrastructure safety ▲crime safety.

Operation of the On (溫) Sharing Service for shared use of public vehicles, opening of the new Hwagok 6-dong Community Center building, implementation of one-stop service for marriage and moving-in registration

Starting in April, the "On (溫) Sharing Service," which shares unused public vehicles free of charge with socially vulnerable groups during weekends and holidays, will be implemented.

The service targets socially vulnerable groups such as basic livelihood security recipients, lower-income households, single-parent families, and North Korean defectors, as well as multicultural and large families. Users must hold a valid driver's license for the vehicle type and have no record of major accidents in the past two years.

In July, a new building replacing the old Hwagok 6-dong Community Center will open. Located at 980-19 Hwagok-dong, where the newly built Newlywed Hope Town is situated, the new building has two basement floors and five above-ground floors, equipped with a civil service office, a small library, program rooms, a gym, and other resident convenience facilities.

From this year, a one-stop service allowing simultaneous application for marriage registration and moving-in registration at the district office is in operation. When submitting both marriage and moving-in registration forms at the district office, the staff processes the marriage registration and immediately forwards the moving-in registration form to the local community center.

The changes in district administration are produced in e-book format and can be checked on the Gangseo-gu Office website (Administrative Information - Gangseo Administrative Data - Other Administrative Data).