Gunsan City Launches Proactive Response to Post-COVID and Korean New Deal Policies

Policy Discussion Meeting and Employee Capacity Building Training Conducted

Gunsan City Hall

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Hong Jaehee] Gunsan City, Jeonbuk Province, is taking the initiative to prepare for the post-COVID-19 era and revitalize the local economy by formulating a Korean New Deal response strategy.

According to the city on the 27th, on the 10th of next month, a policy discussion meeting on the post-COVID-19 era and the Korean New Deal policy will be held in the city hall situation room, attended by Mayor Kang Imjun, senior officials, and heads of major project departments.

This discussion meeting is organized to discover strategic projects that respond to government policies such as strengthening self-reliance capabilities to cope with internal and external changes caused by COVID-19, revising national fiscal strategies, and the Korean New Deal plan.

The discussion will last for a total of four hours. The first two hours will feature lectures led by a policy research institute on the ripple effects of COVID-19, changes by sector, advanced domestic and international cases, revisions to Gunsan City's major policies responding to the Korean New Deal, and new policy directions.

Following this, a free discussion will be held led by the Gunsan City Policy Advisory Group, with Professor Yoon Jinju from Howon University and Professor Song Seokgi from Gunsan University attending as presenters to propose policies related to welfare and economic sectors.

In connection with the policy discussion, the city plans to proactively respond to the Korean New Deal by discovering new national budget projects, public contest projects, and independent new projects for each department for the next year, and will continuously propose COVID-19 related institutional improvements to the government.

Additionally, as reductions in local allocation tax and concentrated government budget support for Korean New Deal-related projects are expected, on the 28th of next month, capacity-building training will be conducted for public contest and national budget project practitioners.

The training will focus on new policy development directions suitable for the post-COVID-19 era and the Korean New Deal, how to utilize policy data sites by ministry, and how to write public contest project proposals.

Ko Daeseong, Director of the Planning and Budget Division, said, “To revive the local economy, which has been stagnant after COVID-19, we must secure a favorable position in national budget acquisition and public contest selection through proactive preparation. To this end, we will revise ongoing projects’ response logic and implementation plans to align with government directions and discover new projects suited to our city’s conditions to establish a new growth foundation in the post-COVID-19 era.”

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