Shinan-gun, Jeonnam's First Administrative, Welfare, and Cultural 'Complex Center' Established

Completion Target for Basement Level 2 to Ground Floor 1 by Next Year

Shinan-gun Family Center Bird's-eye View (Photo by Shinan-gun)

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Seo Young-seo] On the 4th, Jeonnam Sinan-gun announced that on the 3rd, a groundbreaking ceremony for the ‘Sinan-gun Family Center’ was held in Aphae-eup, attended by about 100 people including County Governor Park Woo-ryang, heads of local social organizations, heads of related institutions, and local residents.

The Sinan-gun Family Center is planned to be completed by December next year with a project cost of 12.9 billion KRW (5 billion KRW from the national government, 7.2 billion KRW from the county) in the School-ri area of Aphae-eup.

The family center facility will cover a site area of approximately 13,188㎡ and a total floor area of 3,403㎡ (2 basement floors and 1 above-ground floor). It will house various welfare and cultural facilities such as a Healthy Family and Multicultural Family Support Center, Aphae-eup Office (Resident Center), a children’s library, a shared childcare space, a job training room, and a kids caf?, and will be built as an administrative, welfare, and cultural complex center.

The site of the Aphae-eup Office will be developed into a park with a forest and a cultural plaza, serving as a resting place for residents where various cultural performances will be held.

Aphae-eup was promoted to eup status on January 1, 2012, following the opening of the Sinan-gun government office in October 2011. It is the most populous area in Sinan and a key transportation hub with planned construction of bridges on National Route 77 connecting Aphae Bridge, Kim Dae-jung Bridge, Cheonsa Bridge, and Haenam Hwawon Peninsula.

Governor Park Woo-ryang said in his commemorative speech, “We plan to build the best administrative welfare family center in the country that systematically provides high-quality public welfare services to local residents and offers diverse welfare and cultural benefits from children to the elderly.”

He added, “Going forward, it will fully perform its functions and roles as a one-stop integrated welfare administrative service space that addresses low birthrate, aging population, population outflow, youth and women’s employment, multicultural families, housing and childcare issues, and as a family welfare service space that realizes social values.”

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