Professor Kim Kyung-il to give special lecture on child psychology
Event to spotlight healthy setbacks and resilience
An event offering a cognitive psychologist's perspective on how children develop resilience is set to take place later this month, with the aim of sharing the public benefits generated by lottery revenue and promoting healthy parenting practices in everyday life.
The Community Chest of Korea, together with the Lottery Commission, will host a lottery fund talk concert titled "It's OK to Fall" on Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Art Hall of the Daegu-North Gyeongsang Province Design Promotion Institute.
The event was organized to raise awareness of the sharing values behind the lottery fund, which supports the healthy development of children and adolescents, and to foster a positive parenting culture.
Kim Kyung-il, a psychology professor at Ajou University, will deliver a lecture on why a degree of frustration is necessary for children and how resilience develops in young people, walking the audience through the process by which children build inner strength by working through failure and hardship. A question-and-answer session will follow.
The talk concert is free and open to everyone. Attendees will have a chance to win prizes through an on-site raffle. Registration is open until the day of the event, and details are available on the Community Chest of Korea's official website.
Lee Jeong-yun, head of the Community Chest of Korea's sharing projects division, said she hopes the event will give caregivers a chance to discover their children's potential and think about ways to help them overcome challenges and grow on their own. "We will continue to create diverse platforms for communication to share the value of child welfare projects supported by the lottery fund with the public and build broader understanding," she added.
The lottery fund program uses proceeds from lottery sales to support socially vulnerable groups and advance the public good. The Community Chest of Korea carries out social welfare projects through the lottery fund, and last year used 47.4 billion won ($35.6 million) in lottery funds to support programs including nighttime care services for low-income children and adolescents and initiatives to help children with borderline intellectual functioning improve their social adaptability.
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