1. No Worries Even During School Holidays

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School holidays are the hardest times for children of low income families to receive supportschoolsociety. The regional child welfare center provides foodlearning for the children.

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Thisthe Bongdam Regional Child Center in Gyeonggi Province Hwaseong.
The child welfare center located in the church provides 49 children in need of parental love with foodlearning opportunities.

The civil servants of Gyeonggi Province Hwaseong visited the child welfare center to serve food to the childrenalso to eat with them.

The regional child center was established to provide childrenlow income households with sound foster welfare such as after school learning, games to playdevelop their special aptitudes.
The regional child center provides strong support for children who arecared forsociety or schools.

2. $171.8 Support To Boost Employment

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Gyeonggi Province along with Nonghyupthe Gyeonggi Credit Guarantee Foundation will provide special funds to small & medium sized companiesretailers.
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Gyeonggi Province will provide special funds to small & medium sized companiesretailers to increase job creation.
The province made an agreement with Nonghyupthe Gyeonggi Credit Guarantee Foundation to provide special funds to small & medium sized companiesretailers with high job creation.

The support scope for the special fund$171.8. When the small & medium sized companies take $430,000 of a special fund loan for job creation, for 4 years a cost reduction of around $32,600expected.

Terms of Loan
The conditionloans payable in 3 years with a 1 year grace period. The interest rate1.5% for Gyeonggi Province, 0.7% for Nonghyupthe Gyeonggi Credit Guarantee Foundation will reduce the loan guarantee commission charge0.2%.

This projectexpected to revitalize the regional economy through the job creation of smallmedium sized companiesretailersobtaining laborlow interest rates.

3. Beginning Hope Savings ‘`Increase Happy Savings Account’`!

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‘`Increase Happy Savings Account’`,an account for low income groups that gives twice the savings started in its first transaction.

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From November 25th to December 9th 2009, applications started for the ‘`Increase Happy Savings Account’` for the quasi-poor group.

The opening ceremony of the ‘`Increase Happy Savings Account’` was held with 500 participants.

An overall cost of $1.5 million will be suppliedthe Gyeonggi Province self-supporting fundthe Community Chest of Korea respectively.
$86 of savings every month will result in a return of $6,200 of principalaround $6,600 including interest after 3 years.

This opening ceremony was sponsoredthe Nonghyup Gyeonggi HeadquartersCommunity Chest of Korea.

Inquiries: Welfare Policy Division (031-249-4334)
Distribution of the ‘`Increase Happy Savings Account’` to representatives of applicantsassetcredit management know-how were taught in the financial training.

With the preparation of consultation counters to open bank accountto minimize the inconvenience of online transactions, Gyeonggi Province will be the first to solve poverty problems of low income households.

4. National Sports Games For The Disabled

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The 7th National Sports Games For The Disabled was held for 4 daysthe 26th. Lets take look at the opening ceremony.

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The National Sports Game For The Disabled which will embellish winter snow covered fields was held for the 7th time this year.

110 people including athletesboard members participatedGyeonggi Province.

Sporting events include skiing, ice-skating, ice-sledge hockeycurling.

Curling was the most anticipated event as they placed 3rd nationwide last year.

Moreover, an inaugural meeting for the resolution to win the Vancouver Winter Olympics was heldFebruary 12th.

Among the 52 athletesrepresentative teams, 2 athletesGyeonggi Province participated in ice-hockey.

We wish the Gyeonggi Province teamthe best to achieve 2 consecutive National Sporting Game For The Disabled championshipsto win the Vancouver Winter Olympics.

5. Fun Winter in Farming Village
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It’`s a cold winter with a fierce cold wave hitting the country, however, children in the winter holiday have forgotten about the cold playing traditional games in a village in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province.

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Children sitting together in a cluster with their cute little hands are making mugwort rice cakes.
A plate of mogwart rice cakesquickly filled after children stick big beans onof the rice cakes.

Snow frozen in sledge parks.
Children are experiencing something out of the ordinary through riding sleds with s tied to each other, pulledthe front.
Children’`s cheeks arered due to the freezing cold weather but they are so absorbed in spinning tops on ice that they seem to have forgotten about the cold.

‘`Geumdangom Namu’` Village has been inviting city people to its village since last year for them to experience farming life through experiencing weekend farm plantations.

The winter holiday farming experience will be an everlasting memory for children. Also through the children, in the aging villageno children are found, a powerful energy can be felt.

6. Garlic-Fed Sturgeon, 2 Fold Growth

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Sturgeon producing high-quality caviar grow extremely slowly. It takes 8 years to produce caviar. However, feeding additives were developed to accelerate the growth of sturgeon 2 folds.

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Thisa onea half year old sturgeon.
It10cm larger in size than other sturgeons even though they both grew at the same time.
It`s because of the food.
The smaller sturgeon was fed with normal sturgeon food, but the larger one was fed with garlic additive added sturgeon food.

The selenium in the garlic helps absorb the nutrients of sturgeon’`s food enabling them to grow two times faster than before.

Normally for raw fish it takes 1.5 years to 2 years to raise sturgeons, over 8 years for caviar. However, the development of adding garlic additives into the food increased the period to over half a year, increasing productivity.

After 3 years of research, the Freshwater Institute of Gyeonggi was able to acquire a patentplans to pass down patents to sturgeon hatcheries.

The successful resultexpected to increase the productivity of high value added sturgeonsthe profits of fishermen.

7. The Only Existing Inlaid Celadon Chair

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Koryo Dynasty inlaid celadonfamous for its beautiful colorspatterns. An inlaid celadon showing its ultimate artwork has opened to the public.

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Thisthe only existing inlaid celadon chair showing its impressive figure in a Gyeonggi Province Museum.

The chair assumed to be produced in the 13th centurycylindrical with a slight bulge.

Judgingthe phoenixlotus patterns on the upper side, itassumed that a high status family such as the royal family or aristocrats used this chair.

The chair has an architectural value as 4 areas of the body have patterns such as a peacockblossomsdifferent paintings that indicate wealthlongevity.

The feather pattern of the peacock has a grey tint which until then couldbe seen in any of the inlaid celadon.

The Koryo inlaid celadon chair has definitely grabbed spectators’` attention.

The Inlaid celadon chair which received the best evaluation for skillsart valuegetting incredible interesteveryone with the designation of the chair as a natural treasure of Korea coming soon.