Ma-eum-eul-it-da Social Cooperative is an SME led by CEO Lee Hee-ra, established in August 2019. It operates a culture and arts experience workshop located in Hwaseong City, creating social value through an upcycling business that utilizes coffee grounds.

"Ma-eum-eul-it-da Social Cooperative, as a culture and arts experience workshop in Hwaseong City, aims to connect people's hearts through various experiential activities such as beeswax candles, Scandia moss, napkin art, and woodworking. Furthermore, it contributes to realizing social value by recycling discarded coffee grounds to create eco-friendly products and involving vulnerable groups in this process."

Business Areas

• Operation of Culture and Arts Experience Workshop: In Hwaseong City, we offer various handicraft experience programs such as beeswax candles, Scandia moss, napkin art, and woodworking to encourage local residents' participation in cultural and artistic activities. This creates a space for emotional exchange and communication.
• Coffee Grounds Upcycling Business: We conduct a business that collects discarded coffee grounds and transforms them into various eco-friendly products such as flower pots, eco-friendly deodorizers, clay, pencils, and cat litter. This business includes the social value of creating jobs for vulnerable groups, such as the elderly and people with disabilities, who participate in coffee grounds collection.
• Community Environmental Improvement Activities: We actively participate in solving local environmental problems, such as recruiting coffee grounds collection community activists and operating the 'Green Fruit' environmental project for future generations. These activities contribute to resource circulation and environmental protection.

Products

• Culture and Arts Experience Programs: We offer experiential activities using various materials such as beeswax candles, Scandia moss, napkin art, and woodworking, allowing participants to create their own works and feel a sense of accomplishment.
• Coffee Grounds Recycling Products: We produce and sell various eco-friendly products that can be used in daily life, such as flower pots, eco-friendly deodorizers, clay, pencils, and cat litter, all made from coffee grounds.

Special Notes

• Creating Environmental and Social Value: Through an upcycling business that utilizes discarded coffee grounds, we contribute to environmental protection and simultaneously create social value by involving vulnerable groups in this process, providing them with job opportunities.
• Solidarity and Participation with the Local Community: By operating culture and arts experience workshops and recruiting coffee grounds collection community activists, we encourage local residents' participation, contribute to community revitalization, and communicate closely with the local community.

Recruitment Information

• Main Hiring Positions: We may primarily recruit for community-based environmental and social service-related positions, such as coffee grounds collection community activists.

💡 A Word from JobPloy
Ma-eum-eul-it-da Social Cooperative is a small-scale enterprise that pursues social value through cultural and artistic experiences and coffee grounds upcycling. Foreign workers may have opportunities to participate in practical tasks such as guiding handicraft experiences, collecting coffee grounds, and supporting product manufacturing, primarily by communicating with the local community. It will be suitable for those who empathize with the social mission and wish to cooperate with community members and feel a sense of reward.