Government Doubles 'Cheonwon's Morning Meal' Support... Hope Universities Recruiting from 5th

The support amount for the '1,000 Won Breakfast' has doubled.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced on the 4th that it will recruit universities wishing to participate in the '1,000 Won Breakfast' project, which has been promoted together with universities to spread healthy eating habits among young people, from the 5th to the 19th of this month.

Korea University will implement the "1,000 Won Breakfast" program starting on the 20th, offering breakfast to enrolled students for 1,000 won at the student cafeteria. On the first day of the program's reintroduction after the COVID-19 period, President Kim Dong-won is having breakfast and conversing with students on the 20th. Photo by Heo Young-han younghan@

The '1,000 Won Breakfast' project provides healthy breakfast to university students for 1,000 won. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs decided to operate this year by significantly expanding the support unit price (1,000 won → 2,000 won) and the number of meals (2.33 million → 4.5 million) to about double compared to the previous year, so that universities with difficult financial conditions can also participate and more students can have better breakfast.

Local governments have also established additional support plans amounting to about 3.5 billion won, twice that of the previous year, and will support schools wishing to operate even during vacation periods.

Universities wishing to apply can submit the application form along with the documents attached to the recruitment notice to the Korea Agency of Education, Promotion and Information Service in Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries via electronic official document or email. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs will review the documents submitted by the schools and select and announce the participating universities by the 23rd.