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The last couple of several years have been a bitter time for the underprivileged as the COVID-19 and inflation have also overlapped.
As this kind of, the position of social enterprises in helping people today with disabilities and the aged to find work is acquiring more attention.
Reporter Park Jeong-hyeon captured the impression of a social business exactly where different people collect in advance of the getaway.
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Prior to the Chuseok holiday break, the factories that develop seaweed and grain tea are occupied.
The employees divide the brewed tea into tea luggage.
“I assume there is a lot of turnip listed here”
Even the fried noodles are cautiously packaged.
Seong-shim Kim, 75, who lives in a close by village, operates complete-time in this manufacturing facility.
While he is not youthful, his wild and quick hand movements are very little much less than people of a youthful guy.
I work 20 hours a 7 days and my grandmother earns about 900,000 received a thirty day period.
Thanks to this, I have previously ready a whole lot of pocket income for my grandchildren who came to my home during the holidays.
[김성심 / 직원 : 우리 나이 먹어서 쓸 데도 안 쓸 텐데 가르쳐주고 배우고 하면서 하고 돈은 벌어서 손자 손녀들 올 때마다 만 원이라도… (손주들이) 좋아해요.]
About fifty percent of the firm’s personnel, who process agricultural solutions and make items, are feminine residents in their 60s and 70s.
[최월숙 / 업체 대표 : 사실 나이가 많으셔도 일은 젊은 사람보다 훨씬 더 나아요. (어르신들과 함께) 꾸준히 성장하고 있다고 생각합니다.]
A different social company that manufactures healthier food has personnel in their 20s and 60s doing work together.
I was worried that it would be difficult for a colleague like my father, but now it has turn into an indispensable and worthwhile existence for get the job done.
[박범수 / 업체 직원 : 처음에는 제가 잘 적응할 수 있을까 생각했는데 생각보다 훨씬 더 많이 저를 위해서 태도를 취해주셔서 굉장히 만족스럽게 잘 일하고 있습니다.]
As of the first fifty percent of this 12 months, there ended up 3,300 social enterprises running in Korea.
Amongst the men and women employed by these firms, the proportion of the disabled and the aged is as high as 60%.
[고용노동부 사업 담당자 : 사회적 기업은 2007년도 55개소에서 지금 2022년 7월 총 3,342개소로 증가했고요. 취약계층의 일자리 창출에 기여하고 있습니다.]
These times, not a number of neighbors are collapsing because they are unable to bear the hardships of living as inflation overruns adhering to COVID-19.
It would seem that institutional aid is necessary so that there are far more social initiatives that give them the energy to stand by their aspect.
This is YTN Park Jung-hyun.
Park YTN Jung-hyun (miaint3120@ytn.co.kr)
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