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Strengthening Supportive Welfare… Busan Metropolitan City Establishes and Implements Plan for a Warm and Caring Chuseok Holiday

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Busan Metropolitan City (Mayor Park Heong-joon) announced that it has established and is implementing the “2025 Warm and Caring Chuseok Holiday” plan in celebration of the Chuseok holiday.

This plan was prepared to realize “supportive welfare that empowers citizens” by fostering a warm spirit of sharing with neighbors.

First, the City has designated the two weeks from today (September 22) to October 2, prior to Chuseok, as the focused implementation period for the “Warm and Caring Chuseok Holiday” initiative, during which it will share warmth with vulnerable groups across the city.

Through senior officials, the City Hall, and affiliated agencies, the City will deliver monetary donations and goods to more than 80 social welfare facilities.

Additionally, the City will support ritual expenses for four shelters for the homeless so that those unable to return to their hometowns can still observe joint ancestral rites. It will also provide a holiday consolation allowance of 50,000 won per household to 30,000 seniors living alone.

Related organizations in the city are also joining in with warm gestures of sharing to ensure a caring Chuseok holiday.

BNK Busan Bank (President Bang Sung-bin) will provide 50,000-won Dongbaekjeon prepaid cards to 8,000 low-income households in the Busan area, amounting to a total of 400 million won. In addition, employees will personally visit local traditional markets to purchase goods worth 40 million won in Onnuri gift certificates and deliver them to district and county welfare centers.

The Busan Community Chest of Korea (Chairman Lee Soo-tae) will provide a total of 10.95 billion won in special Chuseok living expenses to 10,950 vulnerable households, including low-income families and residents of jjokbang (tiny single-room dwellings), with each household receiving 100,000 won.

The Busan Branch of the Korean Red Cross (Chairman Seo Jeong-ui) will also provide nutritious rice sets worth a total of 660 million won to 2,362 low-income households, with each household receiving goods valued at 28,000 won.

The 16 districts and counties across the city will also establish their own plans and actively participate in sharing warmth with local residents during the Chuseok holiday.

Jeong Tae-gi, Director General of the Social Welfare Bureau, stated, “As we celebrate Chuseok, our nation’s most important traditional holiday, we ask for the warm interest and cooperation of citizens so that care and compassion for socially vulnerable groups may be fully conveyed.” He added, “Busan Metropolitan City will work closely with districts, counties, and related organizations to ensure that all citizens can enjoy a happy Chuseok holiday.”