1: Online Application for Education Expense Support Available for Low-income Brackets

In every school, classrooms are alive with anticipation for a new school yearnew friends. From this year, applications for education expense supportGyeonggi Province for the children of low-income bracket families can be submitted online.

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Education expenses that will be supported for childrenfamilies in low-income brackets in Gyeonggi Province include: tuition fees, school meal charges, internet feesfree class fees. Free classes are special afterschool classes that each student can choose. The application procedure for support for these four education expenses was simplifiedthis semester.

An applicant can simply visit the OneClick site, register for support, click the education expense items,it’s done!

The subjects of the education expense support are the recipients of the Basic Living Cost Benefitfamilies in the two lowest income brackets with monthly income of less than KRW1.36 million. Applications will be accepted until March 19th.

For a high school student, support of KRW1.67 million will be provided for annual tuition fees, KRW60,000 for school meal charges, KRW360,000 for free class feesKRW18,700 for monthly internet fees as well as KRW1 million per household per 3 years for PC purchase.

Gyeonggi Provincethe Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education are providing quick online administrative services such as this application for education expense support for the convenience of residents.

2: Filipinos Benchmark Gyeonggi Province

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The Philippinesone of the most frequented resort areas in the world. However, this countrystill under development comparable to Korea of the 1970s80s. Officials of the Metro Manila Development Authority visited Gyeonggi Province for the benchmarking of provincial policies.

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Officialsthe Metro Manila Development Authority of PhilippinesGyeonggi Province met at the Gyeonggi Provincial Government Complex in Suwon City.
The Metro Manila Development Authorityresponsible for urban developmentdisaster management for 17 cities around Manila. This Philippine officeGyeonggi Province entered an agreement for mutual exchangecooperation.

The officials of this Philippine authority are particularly interested in transportation tems, water supply managementnew town development in Gyeonggi Province.

The policies of Gyeonggi Province for the realization of quality services such as advanced transportation tems that everyone can use easilyconveniently, environment-friendly urban development, the world’s first public service office on a moving trainother policies of bringing services tothey are needed have attracted interestmany overseas regionshave been praised for their excellence.

3: Former US Congressman, Kim Chang-jun, Visited On-Train Public Service Office

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Former US Congressman Kim Chang-jun, now an honorary ambassador of Gyeonggi Province, boarded a subway train to visit the world’s first public service office on a moving train.

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Honorary Gyeonggi Province Ambassador Kim Chang-jun arrived at Yeongdeungpo (영등포) Station to board the public service train. Kim visited the mobile public service office on the train travelingYeongdeungpo (영등포) Station to Seodongtan (서동탄) Station.

Before arriving at Yeongdeungpo (영등포) Station, Ambassador Kim had visited Dominanbang (도민안방), a mobile provincial service. Kim praised the customized, on-site public services of Gyeonggi Province, noting that such services are unprecedented in the world.

The public service train runs four times daily between Seongbuk (성북) StationDongtan (동탄) Station6:30 am until 10:30 pm, running two times in the morningtwo times in the afternoon..

4: Muhandolbom Visits Private Welfare Houses
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There are more than 690 small private social welfare houses with 10 or less residents in Gyeonggi Province. Most of these are run without facility managersexperience difficulties in inspecting, maintainingrepairing their facilities. Gyeonggi Province began operating the Welfare Facilities Visiting Muhandolbomie (무한돌보미) Service so as to help these facilities.

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Thisa welfare house in Hwaseong (화성) City for individuals with disabilities. There are only nine residentsall of them have disabilities, so they had to hire outside specialists whenever they needed to check or repair their facilities.

Gyeonggi Provinceproviding inspectionrepair services to small welfare houses with 10 or less residentsdispatching specialists.

Emergency situations such as a blocked drainage pipe or a fluorescent light that has gone out can cause considerable inconvenience for the residents. The operators of these facilities are grateful because Gyeonggi Province dispatches specialists to attend to such problems.

Since February 14th, Gyeonggi Province has been operating the Welfare Facilities Visiting Muhandolbomie (무한돌보미) Service for the 697 small welfare houses in the province. This service was designed to help small welfare houses that lack facility managersdispatching specialists to do inspection, repairreplacement work.

Gyeonggi Province expects that,providing this service, many aging facilities will be repairedthe results will contribute to the prevention of accidents.

5: ESCO Project for Energy SavingReduction of Greenhouse Gases
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Gyeonggi Province, with the largest number of production industries in Korea,thegreenhouse gas producer in the nation. The provincial government has been providing support for a variety of endeavors for the realization of low-carbon, green growth. A new energy-saving service, ESCO, was launchedthe provincial government

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Light bulbs in security streetlights in Pyeongtaek (평택) City are replaced with low-energy bulbs. This city has replaced more than 8,000 bulbs with low-energy type bulbsachieved an energy saving of 50%.

Energy savingone of the major concerns of every autonomous body in Korea. Gyeonggi Province signed the ESCO Project Implementation MOU with the Korea Energy Management Corporationthe Korean Association for ESCOs.

The ESCO Project operatesinstalling energy-saving devices on behalf of energy srecovering the invested amountthe value saved. Under this MOU, the four organizations will work together for the implementation of the ESCO project.
Gyeonggi Province will provide administrative supportthe Korea Energy Management Corporation will provide energy specialists. The Korean Association for ESCOsthe Korea LED Association will assume the responsibility of investigating energy usageproviding a range of technical support.

When the ESCO projectimplemented at 300 facilities in Gyeonggi Province over a period of three years, 760,000 tons out of a total of 112 million tons of green house gas will have been reduced,KRW151 billion will have been saved. Gyeonggi Province will continue to support green energy projects such as solar energy development so as to promote low-carbon green growth.

6: Local Community Employment Project Nails Success of Employment Policy

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The general unemployment rate, influencedgradual economic recovery, has shifted downward, but people in underprivileged social segments are still struggling to find employment. Gyeonggi Province launched the 2011 Local Community Employment Project to support the livelihoods of underprivileged familiespromote the local economy.

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The general unemployment rate has been decreasing recently thanks to the economic recovery. However, our disadvantaged neighbors are stilldifficulty finding employment.

In order to support the livelihoods of people in low income bracketspromote the local economy, Gyeonggi Province launched the 2011 Local Community Employment Project.

This year’s local community employment project will provide 7,311 job searchers with stable employment.

The 2011 Local Community Employment Project will runMarch 2nd until November 30th, during which time a first group of 3,656 employment candidatesa second group of 3,655 candidates will be allocated to a total of 747 business sites in the 31 citiescounties of the province.

Previous financial support programs for employment promotion have been criticized as being transient projects. The provincial government plans to implement a variety of programs under this initiative that will achieve substantialsustainable results.

Since the purpose of this Local Community Employment Projectto promote community-minded society, the provincial governmentthe citiescounties of the province will maximize administrative power to ensure the success of the project.

7: Charcoal Resolves Noxious FumesBurial Sites of Culled Livestock
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As the weather becomes warmer, noxious fumesthe burial sites of culled animals raises a new problem. Gyeonggi Province has proposed a solution to this problem.

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As the cold weather of winter recedes, temperatures are rising as well as noxious fumesthe burial sites of livestock that were culled during the onset of foot-and-mouth disease. As the smell around the burial sites intensifies, Gyeonggi Province has proposed a novel solution to address the problem.

The Gyeonggi Institute of HealthEnvironmental Research announced that filter packs containing activated carbon can effectively reduce the foul odorsa factor of 10. The institute has experimented with the use of activated carbon, or charcoal, filters in the gas exhaust pipes of the burial sites.

Noxious odors are reduced as the sulfuric or nitrogenous compounds that cause the odors adhere to the surface of fine bubbles producedthe activated carbon

The institute performed an experiment at an animal burial site in Yeoju (여주) Countyfound that the combined odor concentration decreased90% after using the packs of activated carbon.

Activated carboncheapeasily purchased. Italso easy to install. Simply wrap it in a net or a clothinstall it in the gas pipe.

Activated carbon packs should be replaced every two weeks.

The provincial government also plans to distribute bacillus cereus to citiescounties. Bacillus cereusknown to accelerate the decomposition of animal carcassesprevents odor-causing pollutantsescaping burial grounds.

Gyeonggi Province will undertake the strict monitoringmanagement of burial sites to eliminate foul smellprevent leachateflowing into riverswater sources.