Seoul YWCA

Seoul YWCA wrote a new history in the raining summer night. Finally! Seoul YWCA’s first SNS press corps has been started. The opening ceremony was held on 26 June at the 5th floor of the hall. At the first beginning, SNS press corps introduced themselves, and then they watched the Seoul YWCA’s introducing video together. Su Kyung Choi who is the chairperson of promotion and publication dep. spoke words of greeting, and then conferring the certificate which is the highlight of the ceremony. It was the moment we can feel their full of pride and responsibility. Seoul YWCA SNS press corps is consisting with a teenager, university student, power blogger, and so on. Some members couldn’t attend the ceremony because of their busy schedule, but we know that their determination is also the same as the other members too. “We will make the World with justice/peace/eco-friendly with our pride as Seoul YWCA SNS corps.” “We will keep informing Seoul YWCA’s news by using SNS

“Summer has come! But its usage of electricity is dramatically increasing.” Are you good at energy saving in your daily life? Our consumer and environment team allowed our eight online supporters to be educated about the ways of energy saving for the earth on June 15th, 11th, and 18th. Based on these three events, the supporters will be actively engaged in promoting the way of power-saving. On the first day, Yumi Go, the lecturer, talked about why we should save our precious energy. According to the Korean Meteorological Administration, they predict that the temperature this year will be higher than the average. The heat wave will be extremely serious and prolonged. Due to the global warming continued at this fast speed, the glacier melts thus making the sea level rise. Therefore, it will cause the extinction of some animals and plants as well as could destroy our entire life. Thus, Seoul YWCA wants you to know what you can exercise in daily life by preventing global

How do you feel if you earn different wage even though you did same work? As greeting the ‘Employment equality week’, Seoul YWCA held the campaign to demanding the establishment of the ‘Same wage day’. ‘Same labor, same wage’ means that employer has to pay the same wage to the people who have same value without any other discrimination in age or gender. Even though the weather was so hot, No one can discourage the will for ‘Same labor, same wage’ for making a peaceful world. South Korea is the country which has the widest wage difference among the OECD countries, and also has dishonor about the worst wage difference title. Women earn the lower wage rather than men even though they both work equally. According to the OECD, the wage difference in Korea between men women is 36.7%. This shows that women have to work 95days more to get as same as men’s wage. Because of pregnancy and childbirth, women easily suffer from career interruption and cannot help working as a temporar

“We will be the Y-teen, Youth member with fulfilling the YWCA purpose in our living.” Seoul YWCA held the ‘2018 Y-teen, Youth members (who are the university students) joint charter ceremony’ at the auditorium hall. There were 18 clubs of Y-teen and 9 clubs of the university, and 350 members and the guidance teachers for the ceremony on 26th, May.  The worship was started with Y-teen’s praise (Jungsin women’s high school) and then continued with watching mini-documentary ‘The First Voice @KNOCK’ by Kyung Sun Koo. It was valuable time to feel that we all are one of the masterpieces of the God.  For the special lecture, Si Hyung Ryu (CEO of Kimchi bus) gave a vision lecture telling his favorite topics (Travel, People, Drinking, Cooking, Photos). He cheered people how he achieved his dreams by traveling all over the world. By the member’s oath, the ceremony has been steamed up.  There was also Y-teen gender equality slogan contest; th