Geumcheon-gu Strengthens Courtesy and Support Policies for Veterans

Establishment of Funeral Service Support for National Veterans and Expansion of Veterans' Allowance
New Projects for Youth Including Patriotism History Education to Promote National Defense and Veterans Culture

Geumcheon-gu (Mayor Yu Seong-hoon) is promoting various veterans policies to respect and honor veterans.

This year, as a new project, the 'National Veterans Funeral Service Support Project' is being implemented to honor the final moments of national veterans who sacrificed for the country. Funeral convenience items, Geumcheon-gu condolence flags, and condolence baskets are provided for national veterans' funerals. A funeral director from a professional funeral service company is dispatched for one day to provide funeral consulting.

The district pays a monthly veterans honor allowance of 50,000 KRW to national veterans as stipulated in the ordinance. Starting this year, veterans compensation recipients who were not previously receiving the veterans honor allowance are now included as recipients and will receive the allowance. An additional 29 veterans compensation recipients residing in Geumcheon-gu have been added, bringing the total number of recipients to 2,160.

Veterans compensation recipients are military personnel, police officers, firefighters, and public officials who died or were injured during duties or training not directly related to the protection of the nation’s security or the lives and property of citizens.

In addition, the consolation money provided to veterans honor allowance recipients during Lunar New Year, Chuseok, and the Month of Patriots and Veterans has been increased from 20,000 KRW to 30,000 KRW each, totaling 90,000 KRW in support.

Other new projects to promote veterans culture include ▲ patriotism history education for youth ▲ village life college with descendants of independence activists ▲ maintenance of the memorial monument for war veterans and national heroes.

Mayor Yu Seong-hoon said, “I hope the culture of honoring and commemorating the noble spirit of sacrifice of those who dedicated themselves to the country will spread,” and added, “We will continue to strive to expand the honors given to veterans.”