A Reciprocal Dalseong Cultural City... Special Gift Bundles and Music for Fetuses and Mothers

Healing Concert for Mothers in Dalseong Filled with Music

The Dalseong Cultural Foundation Cultural City Center is carrying out the ‘Dalseong Bottari’ and ‘Sanmo Healing Concert’ projects to practice the vision of Dalseong Cultural City, which is reciprocity, by embracing and welcoming current and future residents of Dalseong County.

Dalseong Botari Poster.

The ‘Dalseong Bottari’ project provides cultural gifts to pregnant women who are residents of Dalseong County and fetuses who will soon become residents, symbolizing the sharing of Dalseong’s unique benefits with the community in a reciprocal cultural city spirit that offers cultural gifts to anyone coming and going.

There are three types of Bottari: ▲Pregnant Women and Mothers Bottari ▲Newborn Baby Bottari ▲Newly Moved-in Household Bottari. Applicants can apply for the type that applies to them, and distribution is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Among the three, the ‘Pregnant Women and Mothers Bottari’ and the ‘Newborn Baby Bottari’ cannot be applied for simultaneously, but one of these two Bottari and the ‘Newly Moved-in Household Bottari’ can be applied for together.

The Pregnant Women and Mothers Bottari includes a comfort doll, the Newborn Baby Bottari contains eco-friendly baby food bowls, and the Newly Moved-in Household Bottari consists of a kit for eco-friendly living. Each also includes a small postcard celebrating pregnancy, birth, or moving in.

The gifts from Dalseong do not end here. Along with the ‘Dalseong Bottari,’ the Cultural City Center plans to hold the ‘Sanmo Healing Concert.’

The ‘Sanmo Healing Concert’ is a so-called visiting concert held once a month from April 24 to November at Haengbokhan Hospital in Yuga-eup or Rose Mom Postpartum Care Center in Dasa-eup. It is designed to help reduce the stress that pregnant women and mothers experience during pregnancy and childbirth through music.

The performing teams for the ‘Sanmo Healing Concert’ consist of ‘Dio Orchestra’ (CEO Park Eunji), Korea’s only opera-specialized social enterprise, and ‘Ensemble The Capo’ (CEO Jung Seonkyung), a local performing group. The ‘Dio Orchestra’ will perform at Haengbokhan Hospital every even month from April 24 to November, while ‘Ensemble The Capo’ will perform at Rose Mom Postpartum Care Center every odd month.

Choi Jaehoon, the county governor, said, “I hope this project, though small, will help increase the local birth rate,” and added, “We will continue to strive to make Dalseong a reciprocal cultural city by leveraging the unique characteristics of the Dalseong Cultural Foundation Cultural City.”

Those who want to check detailed information or apply for the Bottari can visit the Dalseong Cultural City blog, and for inquiries, they can call the Cultural City Project Team at the Dalseong Cultural City Center.