Gwangju Mayor Lee Yong-seop Visits National Assembly with Vice Mayors... Full Effort to Secure National Funds

Mayor Lee: "We Will Make Every Effort to Secure National Funds for Concrete Achievements"

On the afternoon of the 18th, Lee Yong-seop, Mayor of Gwangju Metropolitan City, visited the National Assembly in Seoul and held a meeting with Jeong Seong-ho, Chairman of the National Assembly Budget and Accounts Special Committee, to request the reflection of next year's national budget for local pending projects. Photo by Gwangju Metropolitan City

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Lee Yong-seop, Mayor of Gwangju Metropolitan City, visited the National Assembly on the 18th along with Kim Jong-hyo, Deputy Mayor for Administration, and Jo In-cheol, Deputy Mayor for Culture and Economy, to launch an all-out effort to secure national funds amid the ongoing National Assembly deliberations on next year’s government budget.

In particular, prior to visiting the National Assembly that day, Mayor Lee met with Ando-geol, Director General of the Budget Office at the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, and budget review officers to explain budgets related to key regional projects and requested active cooperation at the government level.

Following this, Mayor Lee visited the National Assembly and met sequentially with Park Byeong-seok, Speaker of the National Assembly; Jeong Seong-ho, Chair of the Budget and Accounts Committee; and Budget and Accounts Committee members Seo Dong-yong and Yang Hyang-ja to request an increase in the budget for major city projects. He also met with Kim Tae-nyeon, Floor Leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, and Joo Ho-young, Floor Leader of the People Power Party, requesting active party-level cooperation regarding budget securing and legislative amendments related to regional issues.

The Gwangju city government is concentrating all administrative efforts to achieve maximum results by cooperating with the National Assembly leadership, the Budget and Accounts Committee, local National Assembly members, and central government ministries to ensure that 35 key projects amounting to 106.1 billion KRW, which are major increase projects at the National Assembly stage, are increased or additionally included during the National Assembly budget review process.

Meanwhile, Gwangju has actively pursued efforts to secure national funds focusing on core investment projects such as future growth engine projects and the Korean New Deal projects, which are government fiscal investment directions responding to the post-COVID-19 era. As a result, it secured a record-high government budget of 2.7638 trillion KRW across 315 projects, a 14% increase (338.8 billion KRW) compared to this year’s national fund reflection amount.

Mayor Lee Yong-seop stated, “Gwangju, with its just history, will create a new history of prosperity. In particular, based on the regional development infrastructure built over the past two years, we will make every effort to secure national funds to produce concrete results that citizens can directly feel.”

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