Yang Hyang-ja Preliminary Candidate "Will Focus on Securing Budget for Seogu Community Center"

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Yoon Jamin] Yang Hyang-ja, the Democratic Party preliminary candidate for the National Assembly election in Seo-gu (Eul), Gwangju Metropolitan City, announced on the 6th that she will work to secure the insufficient budget so that the Seo-gu Complex Community Center project can proceed without setbacks.

The current budget shortfall is 8.3 billion KRW, and if additional national funds are not secured, the planned completion date next year may be delayed.

The Seo-gu Complex Community Center, to be built within Pungam-dong Central Neighborhood Park, will include welfare centers, performance halls, and libraries that can be used by the elderly, women, and children, tailored to the welfare, culture, knowledge, and information needs of residents in Hwajeong 3·4-dong, Pungam-dong, and Geumho-dong.

The facility will have a total floor area of 6,660㎡, from one basement floor to three above-ground floors.

The total project cost is 19.9 billion KRW, but the shortfall of 8.3 billion KRW must be raised through special grants from the central government and other sources.

Candidate Yang said, “According to Seo-gu’s estimates, the Complex Community Center will be a facility used by 120,000 people, which is 39% of the entire Seo-gu population,” adding, “I will strive to ensure that the Complex Community Center, which will be a living space for Seo-gu residents, is completed next year.”

She continued, “If I win the general election, I will meet with central government ministries and negotiate the budget even before May 30, when the National Assembly term begins, to secure national funds.”

Meanwhile, former Supreme Council member Yang Hyang-ja, born in 1967, is known as a high school graduate Samsung Electronics executive who joined Samsung Electronics while attending Gwangju Girls’ Commercial High School and was promoted to Senior Vice President.

She was selected as a “Moon Jae-in recruitment figure” and ran in the 20th general election in Seo-gu (Eul), Gwangju. She was elected in 2016 as a Supreme Council member of the Democratic Party and Chairperson of the National Women’s Committee.

In 2018, she was appointed director of the National Human Resources Development Institute for Public Officials and resigned last August to participate as vice-chair of the Democratic Party Central Committee’s Special Committee on Japan’s Economic Aggression Countermeasures. She is currently serving as a member of the Democratic Party’s National Economic Advisory Council.

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