file # CCF-118 Home Name : Yu Rin Children's
Home
Project Number : 1855
Country : Korea
1. History:
The institute was founded with a view to performing a social
work at Kaesung City on May 5, 1937, and permitted to be established
as a foundational judicial institute on December 28, 1938.
The institute managed various type of social institutions
such as Children's Home, Asylum for the aged, Free of Charge Infirmary,
and Elementary Grammar School for the proletarian children, and on the
one hand, established a textile factory and actual expense-run barber
shop with the object of placing employments for the children accommodated.
At the time of Korea War (June 25, 1950), all the facilities
and installations in the institute had been burnt down to ashes, and
took refuge to the South.
When government return to the former capital, Seoul, the
institute resumed the social works with approval of re-registration
at 352, Changjun-dong, Mapo-ku, Seoul in 1954.
The institute established a day nursery for protection of
the children whose mother are unable to look after by having a job in
a day time due to poor living or other circumstances and obtained permission
of Children's Welfare installation on October 14, 1965.
Yu Rin Children's Home and Yu Rin Day Nursery were moved
into the place of San 1-1, Jungneung-dong, Sungbuk-ku, Seoul, Korea
on August 2, 1967.
Number of children in Yu Rin Children's Home:
60 children
Number of children in Yu Rin Day Nursery: 50 children
