Yeonggwang-gun Accelerates 'Differentiated' Youth Support Policies

Goal to Create Over 700 Youth Jobs This Year

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Jeon Seong] Yeonggwang-gun, Jeollanam-do (Governor Kim Jun-seong) announced on the 29th that it plans to accelerate various and differentiated youth support policies this year with the goal of creating about 700 youth jobs.

The city aims to achieve not only the creation of sustainable youth jobs through wage support, such as the Youth Village Road and Tomorrow projects, which were launched in earnest last year and received great response, but also to increase the income of small village businesses, hitting two birds with one stone.

In addition, to match leading personnel to core Blue Economy companies, a new Jeonnam-type Blue Economy Internship Support Project will be promoted, and employment incentives will be provided to youth and companies to alleviate manpower shortages in small and medium-sized enterprises and to encourage long-term employment of young people.

Linking the youth job cafe, selected in last year’s Jeonnam Province public contest, and the newly renovated county job support center this month, various employment support services that young people can feel, such as operating youth employment competency programs, discovering and mediating job seekers and employers, and company visits, will be implemented with the goal of connecting 120 young people to employment.

Furthermore, through the county youth center Cheongchun Workshop, youth schools, support for youth club activities, and one-day classes will be promoted, and efforts will be made to build employment infrastructure for young people by creating youth workshop streets and youth startup complexes for prospective entrepreneurs.

To help about 200 young people with stable employment activities and the establishment of a self-reliance foundation, projects such as the Youth Hope Stepping Stone Account operation project, youth employment activity allowance, and youth employee housing support project will also be actively carried out.

A county official said, “We will work harder to resolve youth employment difficulties and discover various youth policies so that local young people can settle down stably without leaving their hometowns by expanding a comprehensive support system and foundation.”

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