Gokseong-gun Receives Excellence Award in Jeonnam Province Regional Economic Revitalization Evaluation

[Gokseong=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Chunsu] Gokseong-gun, Jeonnam announced on the 18th that it received the Excellence Award in the 2020 Regional Economic Revitalization Evaluation hosted by Jeonnam Province.

Throughout this year, Gokseong-gun greatly expanded support policies for small business owners facing management crises due to COVID-19, implementing 13 support policies including environmental improvement support, card fee support, and the opening of the Small Business Hope Center.

They also made great efforts to revitalize the market by transforming vacant stores in traditional markets into youth career experience spaces and promoting modernization projects such as installing CCTV.

Additionally, they devoted great effort to attracting investment by resolving inconveniences for small and medium-sized enterprises and revising local regulations to attract mask factories, earning high scores.

In particular, as the first in the province to issue mobile gift certificates, they improved the system through ordinance revisions to expand operations, increased affiliated stores, and held various events, achieving sales of 2.1 billion won as of November, which was a driving force behind winning the Excellence Award by doing their best to increase small business sales and revitalize neighborhood commercial districts.

A county official said, “We have made various efforts, including providing 1 million won to self-closed businesses due to the elevation to social distancing level 2 to support small business owners facing difficulties. We are pleased that our achievements in regional economic revitalization this year have been recognized, and we will do our best in 2021 to invigorate small business owners and the local economy.”

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