Park Young-sook, Gwangju Seo-gu Council Member, "Ordinance Needed to Support 'Small Business Owners'"

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] Park Youngsook, a member of the Gwangju Metropolitan City Seo-gu Council, argued that an ordinance should be established to support economically vulnerable groups such as small business owners and individual enterprises.

On the 22nd, during a 5-minute free speech at the 287th extraordinary session, Councilor Park said, "Regarding the Korean New Deal policy announced by President Moon Jae-in on the 14th, Gwangju has already been engaged in practical activities and efforts," adding, "The support ordinance for small business owners proposed in Seo-gu became the starting point."

She continued, "Gwangju, centered on Seo-gu, has made great efforts to create an environment that prioritizes prevention and safety management for the elderly and youth amid the COVID-19 crisis by realizing K-democracy, establishing cases of the ‘Korean-style digital society innovation model,’ and founding social cooperatives," emphasizing the point.

She then stated, "However, Gwangju ranks low among metropolitan local governments in economic and financial independence," and argued, "Economically vulnerable groups in our region, including small business owners, individual enterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises, must utilize community enterprises, that is, ‘collective intelligence,’ to create conditions for self-reliance and collaboration."

She also said, "It is about sharing diverse values, communicating, and fostering such an ecosystem," and emphasized, "One of these is to create the occupation of ‘Small Business Curator,’ who would play a role in uniting individual enterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises into cooperative-type companies."

Furthermore, she added, "This has already been developed in Gwangju and is being implemented as an educational curriculum in the Seoul and Gyeonggi regions," and stressed, "The most important thing is to create an environment where community-based enterprises can be established, and the starting point should be Seo-gu, Gwangju."

Meanwhile, Councilor Park Youngsook has proposed the ‘Partial Amendment Ordinance on Support for Small Business Owners in Seo-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City,’ which mainly includes details such as the concretization of support plans for small business owners and expansion plans for management stability support.

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