Greetings, everyone, and thank you for joining us for this week’s edition of GTV.
I’m Don Valiant and this is the news from Gyeonggi Province this week.

Article 1. Gyeonggi Folk Culture Year (0713-2)

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A variety of folk cultural events and academic activities will take place in Gyeonggi Province throughout 2015, which has been designated as Gyeonggi Folk Culture Year.

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▶ Suwon-Hwaseong Palace (April 11)
Gyeonggi Folk Culture Year Declaration Ceremonial Event
A ritual for good fortune that features a turtle, a symbol of luck and longevity, begins at the Suwon-Hwaseong (수원-화성) Palace.

▶ [Sound at the Scene] “Bring me water. Bring me water. Bring me all the water of four oceans…”

▶ Icheon Geobuk Nori (Gyeonggi Province Intangible Cultural Property #50)
This ritual used to be performed in Icheon (이천) during Chuseok (추석) by villagers driving a carriage adorned as a turtle and visiting important spots in the village to drive evil spirits away.

▶ Yangju Byeolsazndae Nori (Important National Intangible Property #2)
The ritual was followed by another display of folklore, a dance performed in masks.

▶ Kim Yong-gyu / Spectator from Jeongja-dong, Suwon
“We cannot see these kinds of performances unless we travel far to the Folk Village. It is nice to be able to see them with my children virtually in our backyard.”
This festive event was organized as part of the Gyeonggi Folk Culture Year declaration ceremony. There was also a special corner for traditional folk games in which children and adults alike happily participated.

▶ Choi Ru-si / 3rd Grader, Sadong Primary School, Icheon
“Old games are much more fun; video games are bad for our eyesight, too.”

▶ Folk Culture Year Designated by National Folk Museum of Korea
Since 2007, the National Folk Museum of Korea has been designating Folk Culture Years beginning from Jeju (제주) Province so as to promote the revival and continuation of regional folk culture.

▶ Gyeonggi Province Governor Nam Kyung-pil
“I think that our folk culture is a reflection of the spirit of Koreans stemming from our blood, and that it is an ideal vehicle for bringing us together.”
The Folk Culture Year designation sees its final year in Gyeonggi Province. Gyeonggi Province and related organizations plan to hold a variety of folk and cultural events including performances, experiential programs, and festivals as well as academic research this year. ?

Article 2. Korea’s First Coffee Museum (0414-3)

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Namyangju (남양주) County of Gyeonggi Province is home to the first coffee museum in Korea. This museum is one of three operations of the Waltz & Dr. Mahn Company that also include a restaurant and Friday Concert. Our reporter was there.

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▶ Waltz & Dr. Mahn Coffee Museum, Namyangju
Visitors to the museum can experience coffee brewing right from the roasting of coffee beans to grinding of roasted beans to the actual brewing of coffee using exotic apparatus. The museum is permanently filled with the pleasant aroma of well-brewed coffee.

▶ Kim In-suk / Visitor
“It tastes wonderful. It smells good, too. I have experienced only a few flavors of coffee, but there are many varieties here. I think I will come here more often.”
This coffee-experience program is offered to visitors by this museum that features the history of coffee.
[CG] The first record of coffee in Korea appeared in the first newspaper of the country in the late nineteenth century.
The first Korean to taste coffee was King Gojong (고종), the second last king of the Joseon (조선) Dynasty, who liked c
offee so much that he employed a taster for fear of someone doctoring his coffee.

▶ Museum Features Coffee Paraphernalia Collected over 20 Years
Opened in 2006, the museum features coffee paraphernalia collected in person by its founder from around the world over a span of twenty years.

▶ Byeon Eun-jin / Waltz & Dr. Mahn Coffee Museum Planning Team
“Our museum is unique in that it features the history of coffee and various coffee drinking cultures around the world from a Korean perspective.”
Although known for millennia, coffee was first cultivated in the sixteenth century and introduced to Europe in the seventeenth century.

Article 3. Gyeonggi Province Recycles Public Toilet Water (0415-2)

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Some of the public toilets in Gyeonggi Province are using water recycled from their own waste water. A recent assessment revealed that the use of these water-recycling tems resulted in the saving of a significant amount of water and associated operation costs. Our reporter examined the details.

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Piano Falls in Namyangju (남영주) County has over 200,000 visitors annually.

▶ Piano-shaped Toilet Building at Piano Falls, Namyangju
These 90-meter-tall, man-made falls are located next to a water treatment plant and feature a building shaped like a grand piano, hence Piano Falls. This building is, in fact, a toilet complex that has its own water recycling tem.

▶ Yang In-cheol / Piano Falls Facility Manager
“An amount of water equivalent to 50 flushes is saved by the tem on average daily.”

▶ Waste Water from Wash Basins and Floor Cleaning Recycled
Waste water from wash basins and floor cleaning is recycled through filtering and sterilizing processes before being used to flush the toilets.

▶ Water-saving Facilities Installed at 8 Public Toilet Locations in Gyeonggi Province
There are eight public toilet locations in Gyeonggi Province that have their own water-recycling tems.

▶ Water Usage Reduced by Up to 1,000 Ton Annually
Collectively, the amount of water saved by the use of recycling facilities by these public toilets amounts to 1,000 tons an
nually, which is equivalent to KRW 1.4 million in terms of utility costs.

▶ Choi Jang-yeong / Gyeonggi Province Water Resource Headquarters Official
“We will ensure that these water-saving facilities are in best working order through regular inspections.”
Since Korea ranks fifth in the world in terms of water shortage severity, water recycling is emerging as an important issue in the nation.

Article 4. Sewol Ferry Memorial Art Exhibition (0416-1)

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One year ago on April 16, the Sewol (세월) Ferry disaster claimed the lives of many passengers. In memory of those who perished, mostly young students, a group of artists from the regions of the incident and victims held an art exhibition.

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▶ [Screen top left] “Memory” by Hwang in-gyu
In one of the paintings, a collection of unsuspecting young faces defy the time that has passed, which seems like only yesterday.

▶ [Screen top left] “Ascension” by Lee Je-ok
In another painting, those who perished become white butterflies who meet with yellow ones, those who came to see them off, immortalizing the bond between those who are gone and those who remain.

▶ [Screen top left] “Refloating Sewol Ferry” by Cho Yong-sang
Yet another painting depicts the boat that carries loved ones to heaven.

▶ Kim Hui-jin / Gojan-dong, Ansan
“I don’t think I will be happy when cherry trees blossom for many years from now. It will only remind me of the tragedy.”

▶ Ansan Danwon Art Center (April 14~19)
Sewol Ferry Memorial Art Exhibition
Artists from Ansan (안산) City, where the victims’ school is located, and Jindo (진도) Island, where the tragic incident occurred, gathered together to open a memorial exhibition for the deceased.

▶ 120 Artists in Ansan and Jindo Participate
One hundred and twenty artists from these two regions participated in this exhibition with 226 memorial artworks for the Sewol (세월) Ferry disaster victims.

▶ Yu Gi-hwan / Vice Chairman, Ansan Arts Association
“We organized this exhibition in memory of those who perished as well as to console their loved ones.”
Beginning from this year, the Sewol (세월) Ferry Memorial Exhibition will be an annual event held alternately in Ansan (안산) and Jindo (진도) in April.

Article 5. Gyeonggi to Establish Disaster PTSD Support System (0417-1)

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Even one year after the Sewol (세월) Ferry disaster, many of those who were close to the victims are still suffering from serious psychological trauma. Recognizing the necessity for post-disaster psychological support, Gyeonggi Province announced a plan to establish a disaster PTSD support tem.

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▶ Ansan Joint Memorial Hall
On the first anniversary of the Sewol Ferry disaster, there are many visitors to the joint memorial hall that opened for public mourning immediately after the tragic incident that claimed nearly three hundred lives. Scars among the families of the victims still run deep.

▶ Lim Yeong-ae / Mother of Sewol Ferry Disaster Victim
“When a bus arrives at a bus stop, I feel as if my kids will jump off any time. When the door rattles in the wind, I feel as if I hear my kids shouting, ‘Mom, I’m home and I’m starving!’”
Psychological trauma is also common among the survivors. Many have serious mental conditions and even show suicidal tendencies, while the tragedy itself is slowly being forgotten by society.

▶ Gyeonggi Province to Establish Disaster PTSD Support System
Gyeonggi Province has been working on the establishment of the disaster PTSD support tem for some time.

▶ Lee Han-gyeong / Director General, Gyeonggi Province Health & Welfare Bureau
“The necessity (for the tem) has been strongly recognized since last year, and we are about to formulate a framework for the tem.”

▶ Disaster Psychology Specialists to be Trained
In order to secure manpower for the tem, Gyeonggi Province plans to begin disaster psychology specialist training.

▶ Early Response Procedures to be Developed
Post-disaster psychological support will be provided immediately after such incidents, since the subsequent negative emotional effects of disasters on victims and their families can be minimized by providing treatment or taking preventive measures in early stages.

Article 6. Gyeonggi Guides Medical Payment Support Recipients (0417-2)

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Gyeonggi Province is implementing a medical payment support recipient management program so as to prevent support recipients from abusing the program, which is available to individuals in low income brackets.

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Sixty-year-old Kim lives in a mental health nursing home. Before he was institutionalized, he had been staying at a mental hospital for seven years, which cost more than KRW 100 million.

▶ Kim Yong-su / Medical Payment Support Recipient
“I was scared of living outside the hospital. Besides, I had hallucinations if I didn’t take drugs,”
Since he moved to a nursing home, his drug use has decreased and his medical costs have been reduced to less than one tenth.
(cg) There are 4,700 medical payment support recipients in Gyeonggi Province, with the amount of support being paid amounting to KRW 800 billion annually.

▶ Gyeonggi Prevents Financial Wastage through Support Recipient Management
Support recipients are managed through the close monitoring of support payment records, operating medical payment controllers, and guiding recipients through the controller’s mentoring activities.

▶ Medical Payment Controller Mentoring Saves KRW 15.5 Billion
Over the past two years, support payments were reduced by KRW 15.5 billion through mentoring.

▶ Kim Tae-hun / Gyeonggi Province Livelihood Support Team
“We were able to save a large amount of funds by mobilizing a strong network in which controllers share knowledge and techniques and cooperate with each other.”
Gyeonggi Province also plans to introduce medical payment management techniques used in developed countries. ?

Article 7. Monthly Women’s Job Fair Held in Gyeonggi Province (0417-3)

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The Gyeonggi Women’s Vision Center has been organizing a monthly job fair, Job Open Day, for women who have left the workforce and then return to the job market after marriage or childbirth.

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▶ Unjeong Happiness Center, Paju (April 16)
Job Fair for Women, ‘Job Open Day’
The waiting room at the venue for this job fair is filled with women in their twenties to fifties who have handed in their applications and are anxiously waiting for their interviews. The remainder of the hall is divided into sections for interviews with the representatives of enterprises.

▶ [Sound at the Scene] “We have all employment benefits such as four basic insurance, retirement payment and welfare programs…”
At the women’s monthly job fair, job applicants are directly connected with enterprises based on the information provided in their applications and the employment requirements of participating enterprises. At this job fair, the human resources representatives of fifteen enterprises explain the jobs available and interview applicants. There is also a separate section for new businesses for their product promotion and sales.

▶ Kim Eun-sun / New Business Founder
“Public relations are the most difficult challenge for shopping malls like ours. This is a very good opportunity to publicize our shopping mall and products.”
The job fair was followed by additional support programs such as effective makeup and photograph techniques for interviews.

▶ Lee Sun-neum / Director, Northern Gyeonggi Women’s Vision Center
“We have organized 10 monthly job fairs for women over the year. So far, 350 women have found employment at the fair.
The next Job Open Day for women is slated for Dongducheon (동두천) in northern Gyeonggi Province.

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