Baik’s Village in Korea
Date of Establishment: September 9, 1986
Location: Yeonbong-ri, Hongcheon, Gangwon-do
Baik Sunghak established the first Baik’s Village and operates a comprehensive welfare facility equipped with a nursing home, a church, a shelter for the disabled, a rehabilitation factory, and a hospital. The first Baik’s Village is located in Hongcheon, and was established to commemorate the reunification with Beattie, the American soldier who saved the life of Baik Sunghak during the Korean War, as well as building a relationship with the Korean Army's 110 Mortar Platoon.
Since November 2021, Baik’s Village has been conducting volunteer work in the local area centered around the church and is preparing for new operations
Completion Ceremony for Baik’s Village in Hongcheon (1986)
Welfare Facilities
Nursing Home
Accommodates 9 to 28 senior residents, operated from 1985 to September 2021Approved as a residential welfare facility for the elderly in November 2009 as an ‘Ilseon Home' for Senior Citizens
Church
'Dongwon Church' operated from 1985 - 2002
Affiliated Hospital
‘Baik Chon Clinic’ provided free medical treatment to 19,000 nearby residents and patients in need, operated from 1985 to 1993 and supported from 1987 to 2002
Local Welfare Facility Support Project
Support for operating expenses of nursing homes for tuberculosis patients, the elderly, etc. Supported from 1990 to present
Facility for Protecting Disabled People
Operated from1985 to 1995
Support for underprivileged people around Baik's Village in Korea
YoungAn has been operating the Baik’s Village in Hongcheon-gun since 1985. Along with Baik’s Village, Young An provided support for small-scale welfare facilities facing difficulties in operation from 1990 to the present in Hongcheon-gun. At the beginning of 2020, YoungAn expanded and supported social welfare facilities in Hongcheon-gun as part of the sharing project in collaboration with Soongeui Women’s College and Soongeui Moffett Memorial Church. Furthermore, Young An is seeking to expand supporting facilities eventually
