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Senior Citizens were invited to the KCA 게시글 상세보기 - 등록일, 조회수, 첨부파일, 상세내용, 이전글, 다음글 제공
Senior Citizens were invited to the KCA
Date 2011-11-07 Hit 1607
Celebrating Day of Older Persons (Oct. 2nd), the Korea Consumer Agency (President: Young-seen Kim, www.kca.go.kr) invited 25 senior citizens from its neighboring senior citizen center on Sept. 30th and provided a variety of informative programs in relation to consumption.

Through the three-hour-long event, those participants had an opportunity of having first hand-on experience of green consumption, which could be put into practice in daily lives, in a Pavilion named Green Life Home. For reference, the Pavilion was established in the building by the Korea Consumer Agency on Sept. 1st, 2010 as part of the Korean Governments Green Growth Policy. 

Meanwhile, a small tour to testing and inspection facilities of the KCA was arranged for those visitors. In particular, those facilities were used to test quality and safety of consumer products for senior citizens such as motorized wheelchairs, senior walkers, and other devices to assist senior citizens in walking, and other health products in which senior citizens are quite interested. Also, a special educative sessionxx was provided to prevent consumer damages that can occur to senior citizens. 

The Agency said that this kind of invitation could help senior citizens to lead smart and rational consumption lives.

 

Supplementary Coverage

Gwang-yeop Goh, Head of Consumer Product Safety Team, Consumer Safety Department ( 02-3460-3481)

Sun-hee Kim, Senior Manager of Product Safety Team, Consumer Safety Department ( 02-3460-3484)

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