Boseong-gun Aims to Achieve 71% Employment Rate This Year... Full Effort on Job Measures

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Yong-chul] Boseong-gun, Jeollanam-do has established a detailed plan for job policies and announced this year's local job target disclosure.

According to Boseong-gun on the 10th, the county set a goal to achieve 23,900 employed persons and an employment rate of 71% (based on ages 15-64) by investing 23.6 billion KRW in job-related budgets.

Last year, Boseong-gun's job promotion performance showed an employment rate of 69.3% for ages 15-64, an increase of 1.8% compared to the previous year, and has shown a continuous upward trend over the past two years. This is a high employment rate ranking among the top in the province.

The county will focus on strengthening direct job creation, vocational skill development training, employment services, and job infrastructure construction to increase local job creation and employment rates. The estimated number of beneficiaries by sector is 6,715.

In line with the 7th local government administration's pledges, the county is fostering a sustainable job foundation by ▲discovering and nurturing small-scale processing companies and attracting small and medium enterprises to create jobs, ▲providing customized jobs for low-income and employment-vulnerable groups, ▲creating new jobs through youth capacity building, and ▲creating customized jobs for the new middle-aged and elderly.

County Governor Kim Cheol-woo said, “We will continuously discover jobs needed in our region and increase quality jobs through attracting companies.”

Meanwhile, local job target disclosure is a regional employment activation policy where the head of a local government presents and implements measures to achieve local job targets.

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