Haenam-gun Selected for Jeonnam Province Rural Return and Stay-Type Support Center Competition

30 Billion Won Invested for One-Stop Support to Prospective Returning Farmers and Fishers

Haenam County Office Building View (Photo by Haenam County)

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Seo Young-seo] Haenam-gun, Jeollanam-do (Governor Myeong Hyeon-gwan) announced on the 16th that it has been selected for the 2020 Return-to-Farming and Fishing Villages Residential Support Center Construction Contest project hosted by Jeollanam-do.

The Return-to-Farming and Fishing Villages Residential Support Center project will invest 3 billion KRW in total, including 1.5 billion KRW from the provincial government, to support prospective returnees to rural and fishing villages to reside with their families for a certain period and prepare for returning to farming and fishing.

Through this project, an infrastructure will be established where participants can understand rural lifestyles, receive entrepreneurship training, and comprehensively acquire information on land and housing.

The Haenam-gun Return-to-Farming and Return-to-Village Hope Center, located in Dunju-ri, Gyegok-myeon, plans to build and operate multipurpose community facilities such as residential housing for stays, educational facilities, community practice farms, childcare rooms, lounges, libraries, and fitness rooms.

Through the support center, it is expected to provide urban residents wishing to return to farming and fishing villages with opportunities for agricultural technology education, minimizing trial and error during the implementation stage of returning to farming and enabling stable settlement in Haenam-gun.

Myeong Hyeon-gwan, Governor of Haenam-gun, said, "Through the Return-to-Farming and Fishing Villages Residential Support Center, we will expand the influx of population returning to rural and fishing villages and nurture future successors needed for agriculture and fisheries," adding, "We will continue the reputation of Haenam as the number one place for returning to farming and villages, overcoming rural depopulation and aging."

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