Bucheon Community Center Hold Event of "Would You Call My Name?"

Bucheon Community Center Hold Event of "Would You Call My Name?"

Sang-dong Resident Community Center in Bucheon City, South Korea, held a special event for senior citizens last March 25, 2013. At the event, the town chief and colleagues of Sang-dong, a town in Bucheon City, put name tags on three hundred senior's chests, and called their names. It's just like the famous Korean poem "Flower" written by Chunsoo Kim. Here is a part of the poem; "When I call his name, he finally comes to me and becomes a flower."

Don't you think we have been unfamiliar with calling each other's given name? We're used to call just family names with home towns. Calling his or her full name will be helpful to make each other closer. 

"I'm not happy when I'm called Ms. Ju, Madam Ju or Grandma Ju. I'm happy that you call my full name, Jeonghwa Ju." said Jeonghwa Ju, 73 years old, with full smile on her face, at Sang-dong Senior Community Center, Wonmi-gu, Bucheon City.

The front of the name tag shows the title, "Please Call My Name", the name of senior community center and owner's name.  Information about senior welfare such as basic senior pension, long life benefits and phone numbers about Sang-dong government offices are written at the rear face of the tags.

<photo 1: The town chief of Sang-dong, Jonggu Park, puts the name tag on a grandma named Jaehee Han at Sang-dong Senior Community Center, Bucheon City, South Korea, on March 25, 2013.>