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Your excellency Woo Dong Gi Chairman of the Presidential Committee for Balanced National Development.

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Your excellency Oh Young Hun governor of Jeju province.

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Ladies and gentlemen good afternoon

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It is my great pleasure to be with you on this pleasant evening

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I take this opportunity to express my warmest congratulation to the

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Asian forum on Peace & Sustainable Development committee for hosting the forum.

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The road for the planet, people, prosperity, and governance.

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As a team of this year’s forum is actively promoted in my country United Arab Emirates.

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In 2020, the UAE send Al-Amal spacecraft to Mars called The Hope mission.

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The Hope mission is part of the country’s national space strategy 2030 to play a role for the planet.

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The happiness of the people is one of the major agendas of the UAE.

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The UAE leadership considers the nation’s people as a key asset to building a strong future.

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As prosperity is concerned, the UAE has been achieving remarkable international index,

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rankings over the past years.

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With regard to governance,

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the UAE has recalled an excellent indicator in terms of the political severity,

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government effectiveness, absence of violence and terrorism,

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and control of corruption just to mention a few.

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I hope that the forum will succeed in achieving its objectives,

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Thank you.

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Hello, I am Maria Castillo Fernandez and the UN ambassador to the Republic of Korea.

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I would like to thank the chairman of the Presidential Committee for Balanced National Development

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for his kind invitation to this event.

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The theme of this year’s forum for Asia Peace & Balance development

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are all for the planet, people, prosperity, and governance

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couldn’t be more relevant in timing

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given the very difficult global economic and social context we are living in today.

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Conflict, part of the world created security and threatens peace (inaudible).

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The Russians regression in Ukraine.

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Illegal.

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Brutal.

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Has secured 10 thousand of (inaudible) and displaying more than 12 billion Ukraine so far.

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By disrupting energy and food supply chains,

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Russia’s actions have destabilized the global economy and jeopardized loan security as well.

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Despite multiple crises, fuel global insecurity, climate change,

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pandemic, environmental degradation, water shortage, and democratic pressures

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they will keep on working to achieve global peace and to appeal the international legal order.

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In particular, the European Union is determined to strengthen this cooperation in and with Asia.

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As European prosperity and Asian peace and security are very closely connected.

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This is also in line with the steps we have taken in the past years

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to consolidate our role as a global security provider not only the global economic provider

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and this is within the framework of the Indo-Pacific European strategy.

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Europe and Asia share from the mentally interest in a rule-based international system.

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As well the view to the challenges the world face today

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go beyond national borders and cannot be tackled alone.

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Thus for working together with Asia for peace and prosperity is, therefore, both desirable and necessary.

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Ladies and gentlemen, we’re gathered together today to discuss promoting peace and prosperity to this region.

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I would like this who are committed to working closely with parts in Asia and ready to share our experience.

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I believe this forum will provide an excellent round for discussion on that note.

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The international rule base order is our order, your order.

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The order for all of us and we need to preserve it.

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I wish you all a fruitful constructive and positive forum. Thank you

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So, I go in English okay.

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First of all, I really feel sorry for the Itaewon tragedy

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and within this tragedy, I really appreciate for inviting me to this precious conference event.

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So today, I’m going to present about work opportunities for elder people.

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Let me ask one question.

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Until how old do elder people work in your country or in your area?

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Probably for women, they keep working as housewives.

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How about men?

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In Japan almost 60 years,

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we set up the border and after that, a lot of people quit their job, quit working.

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How about your country?

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So, let’s proceed.

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First of all, let me introduce myself,

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Again, my name is Hisao Nakayama from Japan.

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I sometimes go by George

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because a lot of foreign people have difficulty pronouncing my name

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so I have an English name also, so please call me George if you like.

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And this is my career.

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Now I run several companies.

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So this is my work experience.

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From 2001, I enter one big Japanese old company called Idemitsu Kosan

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and keep working for about 10 years

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then I just changed my job to one big chemical company, a global company called SABIC

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and during Idemitsu Kosan or SABIC I sometimes come to Korea

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because I got some business with Kumho, LG, Hyundai, Aekyung something like that.

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And this is my company’s introduction,

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I have some roles, several roles

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mainly I have two companies about caregiving services and the other work support company.

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I mostly focus on those companies’ activities.

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This is the company profile.

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So as I told you, mainly I got two companies running

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and our business field is caregiving

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also the medical field (Home-nurse), senior residence, nursery, and job support.

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Especially the location is pretty spread out,

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well the head office is Nara Prefecture.

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Maybe I think Nara is kind of strange in the Korean language

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it means country, right? “우리 나라” and is something I feel that it's related.

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So, as you may know,

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we in Japan are facing a very severe situation of a high aging rate.

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Two years ago, in 2020 the shares over 65 years old.

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Oops sorry.

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Oh, this one. This one.

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The rate over 65 years old population reached over 30%.

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So one-third of Japanese are now over 65 years old.

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It’s a very severe situation.

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And the current population in Japan is about 120 million people

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but in 30 years, year 2050, we’re getting into a population of less than 100 million people

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so we’re going to lose about 20 million people, over 20 million people in my country.

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As long as, the high aging rate then our social expenditure of Japan

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I mean social security expense is growing year by year

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and this is also a severe situation.

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And we got mainly three main, three kinds of social security services,

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one is pension, health including medical and welfare something like that.

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The high aging rate grows total expenditure of Japan is also increasing rapidly and this is a serious problem.

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So now, let me show you one animation,

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a video, about 3 minutes long.

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The reason why I start to give service to elder people working.

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Thank you very much.

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The video is playing in Japanese but I post this video on YouTube channel

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so if you want to look at it in English or Korean version then I can give you the YouTube address

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so you can check it out.

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So as I mention it’s because I just moved this social welfare service industry from the petroleum industry

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then I felt like at first when I got the job for this industry

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I felt like really strange not substantiable system in Japan

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in the medical field, social welfare field increasing rapidly,

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nobody thinks that decreasing this field or expense

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so one day I just talked to my facility user which is about maybe 65-68 years old women.

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She just talked to me that I want to die,

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that’s just a serious comment to me and I was shocked

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but when I look at the women

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she is really skillful and she really likes to make some crafts and cooking and something like that

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but people think that she is already retired

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I just felt that, wait those people are like mining gold

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we need to utilize or use take advantage of their wisdom and experiences.

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That’s what I felt at the moment.

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So I just think that, I need to make new service for them.

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Then I just name them Awoni Kobo.

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Awoni Kobo is only Japanese brand,

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just name the brand for this service and it’s only a name.

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I start to develop this service in 2019 April

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and at first I just opened the service for elder people in our nursing home

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which is the candidate the people who live in our nursing home.

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I just felt, I got two symptoms for good things and bad things.

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What the good thing is

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that I felt like this is, wow this is really effective for elder people,

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I mean working is probably curing them to anti-dementia or something

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and the bad thing is that this is never successful for a business.

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It’s very tough to make money in this field.

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Those two symptoms are what I felt at the moment.

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So I just keep trying to give them a new job, new work or something.

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But a lot of people have diseases or differences to act something

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or some people are like dementia suffering from dementia or something like that

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and I just renewed the services

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so in Japan, we got social security service called daycare service

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what daycare service is that all the people just go to faculty and doing rehabilitation

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and we call it daycare service.

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We need, they need also social security expenses

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and I just installed this working service into the daycare service

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then this looks like it’s successful as rehabilitation

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this April I start to cooperate with one of the Japanese cities called Amagasaki city,

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this is one of the Japanese cities.

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Amagasaki city already had two sites which is giving work or job opportunities for elder people

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I mean Amagasaki city is also suffering from an appropriate operator.

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They never find an appropriate operator.

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so I just raised a hand

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and okay I got experience for elder people working

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and we just shake hands to start cooperating.

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And apparently, looks like really successful

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and now two sites and about 50 elder people come to the site and work

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and the age range is about 75 years old to 95 years old.

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So, what they are doing for job is like this,

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mostly crafting and packaging something like that,

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cloth towel, herb for bath, coffee drip pack, packing and souvenir packing something like that

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and one thing really interesting is this one, kimono re-make.

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One designer, there is one designer in Tokyo who just re-make kimonos into t-shirts or skirts

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and this product is really popular online.

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If she just posts the product online probably 20 or 30 seconds somebody buy.

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Maybe more than 200 US dollars for one t-shirt or one skirt

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it’s a very very worthy and very high-value product.

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And what elder people do is unpick and slipping the kimono into normal clothes.

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This is very very um well.

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They look like they have really good experience on dealing with Kimono

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and they are very professional.

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And the other thing is making lunch boxes,

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this is a little different from the other job

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because this needs team play, teamwork.

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So, several people gather and just talk and making some lunch boxes

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it’s really useful for their health.

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So now I’m going to introduce the outcome.

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So good symptoms for elder people.

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There are a lot of good symptoms like support economically

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well this is not too big but they have,

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a lot of elder people already have pensions

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but they add to this some money for their fun

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or their how can I say, well economically it’s sufficient

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and life purpose.

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several years ago I was shocked that a lot of elder people just lose their life purposes

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and you know some people are saying that I want to go die or stuff like that

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but almost all people who work this job

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they are smiling and glittering through their life

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and communication with others

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so we just give them not only work opportunity

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but also community and anti-dementia and stable of life rhythm

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also, this opportunity gives a lot of companies really good symptoms

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like support economically also developing products for elder people.

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This is really in terms of the brand this is really a good thing

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and contribution to social inclusion.

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Now the worldwide issue we have to focus on these diseases, right?

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This issue is really matching I think for these disease issues.

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So, this is the final page

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My goal or I would say our company’s goal is solving social issues, especially aging, high-aging rate.

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And increasing social expenses

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so how do we stop this issue

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is expanding duration of active and worthy life for elder people.

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so, our mission, I got two missions,

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one is to stop using mechanics, giving job opportunities for people

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and the other is collecting data.

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I think there are tons of data we can collect through the opportunity for work build up people

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and finally, I need to establish one big platform for support, job opportunities for elder people

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and maybe hopefully developing this system or mechanics spread out

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of course Korea, China or all over the world and contribute to all the world for a healthy and active life for elder people.

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Thank you very much that’s it for my presentation.

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Thank you very much for giving me another time.

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Well, as I introduce myself,

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in my business, I have several nursing homes.

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I focus on the especially middle-class cities.

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The population is from 300 thousand to 500 thousand like Jeju city

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And what I feel doing this business in that area is

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I think in the current trend in Japan,

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for example, I used to live in Tokyo for 16 years and I move to near Kobe,

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now I live in Kobe.

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when I live in Tokyo close to Shinjuku and Shibuya it’s a very convenient area and high education system

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but now I would say that Kobe is a very good city compared to Tokyo

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because we have good education and (inaudible) system and what's more

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good nostalgia and that’s what she said in Jeju.

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The young generation recently really likes nostalgia like Japanese culture…

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like traditional things.

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In my field, elder people just can give young people just some nostalgia

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it’s in a way education so we need to activate those trends in some cities.

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One more thing in Nara I got some nursing home in the rural area

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and I’m suffering from one aspect which is

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I’m on the economic side but there’s no relationship with the government and the academic side

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so I need to connect those three aspects to build up to grow nostalgia or the city, activate up

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but I think Korea situation you have; we need to solve to get together and cooperate.

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Thank you very much.