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The government is launching an experiment to restore warm dining tables at the village level to address the problem of social isolation, a modern-day "isolated island" brought about by an increase in single-person households and extreme economic deprivation. On June 10, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety finalized and announced 17 target locations for the 'On-Maul (Whole Village) Care Dining Table' public contest business, which utilizes the solidarity of local communities to discover isolated households and look after their daily lives. Breaking away from traditional top-down welfare where the government provides the budget and the private sector manages operations, the purpose is to build a bottom-up welfare safety net where residents directly care for their neighbors through meals using neighborhood shared kitchens as a base.

A total of 17 local governments made the list for this project, including metropolitan areas with a high density of elderly and single-person households, such as Gwanak-gu in Seoul and Dong-gu in Busan, as well as rural municipalities facing the crisis of local extinction due to population decline, including Gapyeong-gun in Gyeonggi-do, Goesan-gun in Chungcheongbuk-do, Haenam-gun in Jeollanam-do, and Hapcheon-gun in Gyeongsangnam-do. The Ministry plans to provide a special allocation tax of up to 80 million won each over a total of three years to guide the creation of shared kitchens, which will serve as anchor spaces. In these spaces, community-led organizations and residents' association groups will go beyond merely serving a single meal; they will provide comprehensive close-knit welfare services by delivering side dishes, checking nutrition and health statuses, and linking individuals with professional psychological counseling institutions.

This attempt to have residents at the forefront directly discover and support the shadows of welfare blind spots, which were difficult to capture with the rigid administrative power of local governments alone, can be interpreted as a positive change in administration. In particular, swiftly lowering necessary funds in the form of special allocation taxes to ease the financial burden on local governments, and granting full authority for planning and operation to residents' associations so they can design customized menus and care systems fitting regional characteristics, is a flexible approach to supplementing the limits of bureaucratic welfare. Ku Bon-geun, head of the Smart Welfare, Safety, and Community Promotion Group at the Ministry, also promised close support after the creation of the spaces, stating, "We will actively help the On-Maul Care Dining Table project grow into a successful regional care model that goes beyond simple food support to restore relationships among residents and prevent social isolation."

However, there is a significant risk that this 'village dining table' policy could degenerate into a 'time-limited state-run soup kitchen' that runs temporary operations only when the government squeezes out a budget, but closes its doors once financial support ceases. This is because it is practically impossible for basic local governments, whose financial independence is already scraping the bottom, to shoulder the labor and food ingredient costs of these shared kitchens entirely with their own independent resources after the limited three-year pilot period ends. Furthermore, underlying the justification of private leadership lies a chronic vulnerability that requires long-term reliance on the labor and goodwill of local volunteers who lack professional expertise.

This is precisely why authorities must completely break away from the complacent practice of spending tax money only on early space establishment. From now on, the government must institutionalize food ingredient donation networks involving local farms or social enterprises, and integrate profit models such as commercial side-dish sales to open up a self-reliant financial structure that functions without external subsidies. In addition, to supplement the limitations of non-professional care by local residents, institutionalizing a dense, public-private convergence 'hybrid care system'—which periodically dispatches professional social workers and nurses from local public health centers or welfare facilities to the shared kitchen bases—is the real task that will determine the survival of this project three years from now.
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