Gwangju Seo-gu Launches Hope Job Project to Overcome COVID-19

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] Seo-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City (Mayor Seo Daeseok) announced on the 19th that it will officially launch the COVID-19 Overcoming Hope Job Project.

The Hope Job Project is a program aimed at providing stable jobs to vulnerable groups and residents in need of livelihood support due to COVID-19, in order to promote regional development and improve quality of life.

This project is being promoted as part of the second phase of Gwangju City's public job project, an autonomous district initiative, and the government's announcement of "emergency job provision and expansion of employment and social safety nets." It consists of 49 projects directly related to residents' lives, including ▲welfare centers and life quarantine ▲environmental maintenance ▲youth support projects.

To promote the project, Seo-gu recruited participants last month, receiving a total of 1,531 applications, and finally selected 802 people based on a scoring table of selection criteria such as household income, property standards, and COVID-19 unemployment or business closure.

The selected residents will be enrolled in the four major insurances and receive a wage of 8,590 KRW per hour, about 1.1 million KRW per month (working 5 hours a day), and after safety training, they will work at each project site until December 11.

A Seo-gu official said, "As COVID-19 prolongs and floods overlap, residents' lives are facing many difficulties," adding, "We will do our best to smoothly promote the project so that it can help residents in difficulty even a little and lead to revitalization of the local economy through the Hope Job Project."

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