Current State of the Center

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Name of the Center Wolgye Social Welfare Center
Director Oh, DongJun
Total Ground Area 3076.2㎡
Operating Body The Korean Evangelism Institute. Korean Bible University (School Corporation)
Location Nowon-gu, Seoul, Korea
Date of Establishment March 12, 1993
Mission Playing a leading role in social welfare! Making local society increase quality of resident’s life!
Vision 1. Being a center that provides professional welfare service models
2. Being a center that respects society, and communicates and cooperates with locals
Major Services

Divorced family support, Multi-cultural family support, Case Management, “Beautiful neighbor” service, Diabetics support, Melancholiacs support, Staff training and benefitspackage
Organization Welfare Service Team / Local Community Organizing Team / Case Management Team / Administration Team / Affiliated Wolgye Public Local Child Center

  • What is Welfare Service Center?

    • It is a private social welfare delivery system that was first developed in Korea, based on Welfare Service Law.
    • It conducts variety of services such as welfare service, case management, organizing local community and the rest.
    • There are 464 centers through out the nation, especially 98 centers operating in Seoul.

Characteristics of Main Visitors

    • Service available to residents in Permanent rental apartment
    • Wolgye Jugong district 1, Wolgye 2-dong, Nowon-gu
    • Main visitors
    • Children, Teenagers, Adults, Elders (All generations)
    • Financial state of visitors
    • Recipients of basic living aid, Low income class, Secondary income class, Ordinary citizens
    • Attribute of the visitors
    • Divorced families, Single-parent families, Grandparent-grandchild families, Alcoholics, Domestic violence victims, Elders living alone, The handicapped (mentally or physically challenged)
    • Approximately 1,500 people benefit from welfare services daily, using 76 services in 4 major departments
      • Usage status by age: 10% for children, 3% for adolescents, 12% for adults, and 75% for the elderly
      • User Economy: 56% general, 41% supply and demand, and 3% next top
      • User family type: 48% of single-person households, 22% of couples, 24% of parents and children, 3% of single-parent households, 2% of grandchildren's families, 0.3% of siblings' households
      • As of 2024, 481 locations nationwide and 99 locations in Seoul are in operation.

Personnel (45 employees)

Position Director Manager Assistant Manager Team Leader Social Welfare Worker
Social Welfare Worker
Personnel 1 1 2 2 14
Position Administrative staff Safety manager and sanitation worker cook and nutritionist Program instructor Development Support Center Instructor Affiliated center
Personnel 2 2 3 5 9 4

Major Services

Welfare Service Team Local Community Organizing Team Institutional operation business
  • Family Section
  • ▪ Single-parent family support project
    ▪ Dreaming Children
    ▪ Infant and Toddler Family Program
  • protected area
  • ▪ Wolgye Community Care
    ▪ Finding My Happy Memories
    ▪ A Beautiful Journey
    ▪ Senior Citizen Restaurant
    ▪ Lunch box delivery
    ▪ Disabled people, elderly side dish delivery
    ▪ Operation of a health care room
  • Self-reliance self-help area
  • ▪ Social Activity Support Project for the Elderly
  • Resident Organization
  • ▪ Resident relations support project
    ▪ Beautiful neighbors
    ▪ Wolgye Hope Village
  • Community
  • ▪ Resident community formation project
    ▪ Youth community formation project
    ▪ Regional network
  • resource
  • ▪ Volunteer training project
    ▪ Resource mobilization/sponsorship project
    ▪ Village fund project
  • Hope Wolgye Project
  • - Employee training
    - Welfare benefits
    - Supervision
    - employee evaluation
    - Ethical management
  • Steering Committee
  • Social welfare practice
  • Public relations business
General Affairs Team Case Management Team [attached organization] Local Child Center
  • Budget/Accounting/Human Resources/Administrative Affairs
  • Education and Culture Area
  • ▪ Wolgye Development Support Center
    ▪ Professional counseling
    ▪ Psychological test
    ▪ Child/adult education, culture
    ▪ Elderly education and culture
    ▪ Family support program for people with developmental disabilities
  • Case Management:
  • - Child and Adolescent Case Management
    - Adult Case Management
    - Elderly case management
    - Family Case Management
    - Team Case Management
  • Case Management Support Project
  • - Partnership sponsorship
    - Hope Ondol
    - BravoSilver
    - Slow Learning Children Support Project
  • Local children’s center
  • - After school care service
    • website
    • wwc.or.kr
    • email
    • wolgyewelfare@daum.net
    • contact information
    • +82 02-999-4211
    • location
    • Wolgye 2-dong, Nowon-gu, Seoul, Korea