Forever Clinic Jeju Branch and Two Other Institutions Agree to Collaborate
When looking at bicycle racks around neighborhoods, it is not uncommon to find abandoned bicycles left unattended. A social contribution project to collect and repair these bicycles and donate them free of charge to local youth is set to be carried out by the private sector.
Forever Clinic Jeju Branch, the Jeju Upcycle Association, and the Jeju Sunul-eum Regional Self-Support Center recently signed an agreement to cooperate on this project.
Through the agreement, under the name “4ever Refresh Bicycle Donation Project,” Forever Clinic Jeju Branch will provide funding, the Jeju Upcycle Association will oversee overall operations, and the Jeju Sunul-eum Regional Self-Support Center will collect and repair abandoned bicycles to produce refurbished bicycles.
Forever Clinic Jeju Branch is a dermatology clinic that provides customized treatments without excessive procedures under the slogan “With sincerity and care, stitch by stitch,” and has been carrying out various activities such as donating electronic devices to youth free of charge every year to grow together with the local community.
This time, they co-planned a social contribution project based on resource circulation with the Jeju Upcycle Association and concretized the project details together with the Jeju Sunul-eum Regional Self-Support Center, which has been carrying out a refurbished bicycle production project using abandoned bicycles.
The Jeju Upcycle Association has been the organizer of the “Asia Upcycle Jeju Forum” hosted by Jeju Provincial Government since 2020, striving to spread upcycle citizen culture domestically and internationally and foster related industries. They joined this project to develop a community-based social contribution business model.
The Jeju Sunul-eum Regional Self-Support Center has been operating entrusted projects such as collecting abandoned bicycles in cooperation with Jeju City, and has been producing refurbished bicycles using collected bicycle parts and providing them to citizens at affordable prices.
Through this project, 30 newly produced Refresh Bicycles will be delivered to youth in Udo and used in the “Udo Youth Bicycle Festival” in collaboration with the Udo Regional Children’s Center.
Anna Han and Hooncheol Yang, co-CEOs of Forever Clinic Jeju Branch, expressed, “We are pleased to contribute to the local community through this excellent project that simultaneously creates value in resource circulation and social contribution,” adding, “As a clinic that is also a community-oriented enterprise, we will expand various projects that contribute to the local community.”
Dongsoon Lee, president of the Jeju Upcycle Association, said, “It is a very meaningful occasion to present a good example of a resource-circulation-based social contribution project using abandoned bicycles,” and added, “We will continue to develop social contribution models that produce sustainable and meaningful outcomes rather than one-time events.”
Euntaek Ko, director of the Jeju Sunul-eum Regional Self-Support Center, expressed gratitude to the two organizations, saying, “The self-support project ‘Refresh Bicycle’ has discovered new possibilities as a social contribution project model,” and added, “We hope mutual cooperation will expand in various fields including resource circulation, local resident self-support, and social contribution.”
Jeju = Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Changwon Park bless4ya@asiae.co.kr
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