Operation of Woodworking Experience Program at Eunpyeong Wood Culture Experience Center

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Eunpyeong-gu (Mayor Kim Mi-kyung) announced that starting in March, it will operate a ‘Woodworking Experience Program’ at the Eunpyeong Wood Culture Experience Center, where participants can create wooden crafts.

The ‘Woodworking Experience Program’ is open to anyone interested in woodworking and is offered as a one-day woodworking experience, a professional course, and an outreach woodworking experience program.

Residents new to woodworking can try making over 20 types of wooden crafts such as cutting boards and octagonal stools through the ‘One-day Woodworking Experience Program.’ Those who wish to learn woodworking professionally can participate in the ‘Professional Woodworking Course’ and obtain a privately issued woodworking instructor certification.

In particular, through the ‘Outreach Woodworking Experience Program,’ woodworking instructors will visit welfare centers within the district to provide woodworking experience education to senior citizens using the facilities.

The ‘Woodworking Experience Program’ at the Eunpyeong Wood Culture Experience Center operates every Tuesday through Saturday. Applications can be made on the Seoul Metropolitan Government Public Service Reservation website. However, registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.

The ‘Eunpyeong Wood Culture Experience Center,’ operated by Eunpyeong-gu, has attracted many residents annually since its opening in 2020. Efforts are being made to provide education-linked jobs, such as having woodworking instructors trained through the professional course work as instructors at the experience center.

At the ‘Eunpyeong Wood Workshop,’ which operates alongside the experience center, 248 wooden sculptures and chairs, including deer figures, were made last year using dead and damaged trees from the local area and installed in parks. Wood repair services were also provided to 32 vulnerable households, and a bazaar linked to the Eunpyeong Nuri Festival was held, donating all proceeds of 1,167,000 KRW to the Community Chest of Korea.

Kim Mi-kyung, Mayor of Eunpyeong-gu, said, “We will continue to introduce various woodworking experience programs at the Wood Culture Experience Center so that residents can have healing time through leisure activities where they can touch wood directly and create woodworking items for everyday life.”