Create a healthy village through sports, promote sports care projects in our village
Jun 24, 2025
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The 'Our Village Sports Care Project' is a representative regional linkage project of the Korea Sports Corporation, providing sports star physical education classes for youth by visiting towns and villages that lack sports infrastructure, and providing health and physical measurements, medical counseling, and health products to the elderly.
At Samsung Elementary School in Tanhyeon-myeon, Paju-si, Gyeonggi-do on the 20th, Hong Cha-ok, a former national team member and table tennis bronze medalist, participated as an instructor, and held table tennis classes with children and supported table tennis equipment.
On the afternoon of the same day, health counseling was conducted for the prevention of musculoskeletal diseases by orthopedic surgeons along with the measurement of health and physical strength of 'National Physical Fitness 100' for about 50 senior citizens at Paju Senior Welfare Center.
Following Paju, the Sports Corporation visited Jangheung-gun, Jeollanam-do for a two-day visit from the 23rd. Lee Dong-geun, a gold medalist in badminton at the 2014 Incheon Asian Games, participated as a lecturer and taught badminton classes with Daedeok Elementary School students, and provided health products to senior citizens at Jangheung Senior Welfare Center with health care services and hopes for a healthy daily life.
An official from the Korea Sports Corporation said, `The more difficult it is to access sports, the higher the experience of providing public services.'We will develop this project into a regional welfare model that provides healthy sports experiences for children and customized health care opportunities for the elderly.'
Meanwhile, the Sports Corporation expanded the project, which was operated in three areas last year, to eight provincial and township areas nationwide this year. Starting in September, nutrition counseling services will be added and carried out sequentially in a total of six regions: Gangwon, Chungbuk, Chungnam, Jeonbuk, Gyeongbuk, and Gyeongnam.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
