Gwangju Nam-gu's Best Policy This Year is the 'COVID-19 Crisis Escape Dream 3-Pack'

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Nam-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City (District Mayor Kim Byeong-nae) announced on the 14th that the policy receiving the most support in the online survey conducted from the 16th to the 29th of last month to select the Best 5 District Policies of 2020 was the ‘COVID-19 Crisis Escape Dream 3-Set’ project.

This project received great response by providing emergency living expenses and large-scale public job projects for special employment workers, freelancers, and unemployed people whose incomes sharply declined, and by conducting education to support employment and start-ups in private companies.

Through this project, Nam-gu supported 99.3 million KRW in emergency living expenses to 993 residents whose incomes sharply declined and provided public sector jobs to 1,582 people.

Additionally, 76 people were employed by private companies through professional training and start-up support education, and 20 residents obtained professional certification.

The second best policy was the ‘New Healing Spot, Bitgoeul Rural Theme Park’ project, which provided residents with various attractions and resting spaces to soothe their tired bodies and minds.

Due to the impact of COVID-19, the project was highly evaluated for planting various seasonal flowers and operating experiential programs such as insects for residents in need of healing.

Along with this, the ‘Blue Road Park Saturday Market Opening’ policy, which resolved conflicts among street vendors, store owners, and residents through public-private cooperation, and the ‘Real-Time Mask Inventory Check Service’ policy, which informed the stock of public masks by pharmacy during the early stages of COVID-19 when purchasing was difficult, were also named among the best policies.

In addition, the ‘Post-COVID Hope Vaccine’ project, which provided bean sprout kits to vulnerable residents such as elderly people living alone to address depression and stress caused by COVID-19, was also highly evaluated and selected as one of the Best 5 District Policies.

A Nam-gu official said, “The policies selected as the Best 5 District Policies were generally closely related to residents’ daily lives, and projects that benefited residents received great response,” adding, “We will continue to do our best to discover policies with high resident satisfaction.”

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