Gwangju Mayor Lee Yong-seop Receives First-Class Award for Democratic Party's Excellent Policy

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Lee Yong-seop, Mayor of Gwangju Metropolitan City, was selected for the excellent policy award for metropolitan government heads and received a first-class award at the ‘2020 Local Government Excellent Policy and Local Assembly Excellent Ordinance Competition’ hosted by the Democratic Party of Korea for proposing the ‘Gwangju-type Job’ and spreading the ‘Win-win Regional Job Model’ nationwide.

This competition was organized by the Democratic Party of Korea’s Committee for Good Local Governments last month to evaluate excellent policy cases rooted in autonomy and decentralization at the site of public livelihood.

The Gwangju-type Job was proposed as a sustainable high-quality local job creation project based on social grand compromise in the Gwangju area, where the local industrial base is weak and companies have limited employment capacity. It was selected as a government national agenda and was highly evaluated for contributing to the nationwide expansion as a ‘Win-win Regional Job Model’.

The Gwangju-type Job is a labor-management win-win job creation model through social dialogue, and a domestic complete car factory, the first in 23 years, was launched in the Bitgreen Industrial Complex, entering full-scale mass production from the second half of 2021.

From the second half of next year, this factory will operate a mass production system of 100,000 units annually for compact SUV models, and it is expected to create about 1,000 direct jobs and about 10,000 indirect jobs.

The Gwangju-type Job project was previously selected as the nation’s first Win-win Regional Job project in June by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, receiving high evaluations for sustainability and job creation. Workers receive social wages through government and local governments’ support for housing, childcare, and education to improve real income and quality of life, while companies receive administrative and financial support such as expanded local investment promotion subsidies and investment tax credits.

Mayor Lee Yong-seop said, “We will continuously develop the Gwangju-type Job, the nation’s first region-led Win-win Regional Job, to provide quality jobs for young people and solve the chronic problems of high cost and low efficiency in the Korean economy, making it a symbol of labor-management coexistence and better jobs.”

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