Jeonnam Province to Change 129 Systems in 7 Major Areas Including Jobs and Economy Next Year

[Muan=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Yoon Jamin] A total of 129 new systems and policies across seven major areas closely related to the lives of Jeonnam residents?jobs and economy, agriculture and fisheries, welfare, environment, and more?will be newly implemented.

According to Jeonnam Province on the 29th, in the jobs and economy sector, there are 13 items in total, including ▲expanding the eligibility for the youth job-seeking activity allowance from within 2 years after graduation to unemployed youth up to age 34 ▲providing livelihood quarantine jobs with monthly wages of 800,000 to 1,800,000 KRW for five months to 306 vulnerable employment groups such as disabled persons struggling due to COVID-19 ▲supporting non-face-to-face guarantee services linked with financial institutions for small business owners who find it difficult to visit the Credit Guarantee Foundation ▲offering online export consulting through the US Amazon Jeonnam Brand Pavilion for companies without export or online marketing experience ▲expanding the eligibility for the Youth Hope Stepping Stone Account from young workers to young entrepreneurs, among others.

In the agriculture, forestry, and livestock sector, there are 32 items in total. These include ▲revising the eligibility for the agricultural and fishery public interest allowance so that any farmer or fisher actually engaged in agriculture regardless of household members’ occupations can receive it ▲making it mandatory to display the lodging logo for rural homestays and adding support for logo production costs to fire and safety facility support items ▲expanding the eco-friendly agricultural product package support project worth 480,000 KRW annually to 22 cities and counties for pregnant women and mothers within one year after childbirth ▲restricting support for subsidy projects for 3 to 5 years for farms administratively penalized for chemical pesticide use ▲providing support such as 30 million KRW for facility greenhouse installation and 15 million KRW for consulting to young farmers contracted for eco-friendly agricultural products ▲supporting up to 12 million KRW for cooling and heating facilities for facility horticulture farms ▲mandating liability insurance for dangerous dog owners with fines up to 3 million KRW for violations, among others.

In the marine and fisheries sector, there are 16 items in total, including ▲raising the support amount for abalone and fish aquaculture farms among aquaculture disaster insurance items from 3 million KRW to 5 million KRW ▲increasing the number of supported promising species farms such as shrimp from 4 to 5 and raising the support amount from 100 million KRW to 150 million KRW ▲subsidizing 50% of direct transaction delivery costs for fishery products and processed goods ▲selecting 10 coastal townships and neighborhoods to support 100 million KRW per location for installing marine debris collection equipment, among others.

In the tourism and culture sector, support will be expanded to 22 cities and counties for bedding laundry and bedding pest control for the tourism accommodation industry, a 100,000 KRW ‘Integrated Cultural Voucher’ will be provided to economically marginalized groups, and the Jeonnam Provincial Museum of Art will open and operate from March.

In the health, welfare, and women’s sector, changes include ▲expanding the basic pension support target from the bottom 40% income bracket to 70% ▲providing 20,000 KRW monthly honorarium to veterans of the Korean War and Vietnam War ▲paying a special allowance of 50,000 KRW monthly to about 5,500 workers in elderly care facilities ▲expanding housing cost support for young employees to young entrepreneurs ▲providing 2 million KRW marriage congratulatory money to young couples residing in the province ▲raising newborn childcare expenses to 500,000 KRW per child ▲newly providing 500,000 KRW per household for families with three or more children, among other changes.

In the construction and environment sector, there are 9 items in total, including ▲implementing an electronic card system for construction workers at construction sites with planned public construction amounts of 10 billion KRW or more and private construction amounts of 30 billion KRW or more ▲expanding nationwide the driving restriction on grade 5 emission vehicles when high-concentration fine dust emergency reduction measures are issued, as currently implemented in the metropolitan area ▲mandating separate disposal of colored PET bottles and transparent PET bottles for residents of apartment complexes, among others.

In the safety and administration sector, there are 28 items in total, including ▲implementing ‘Clean Jeonnam Best Village Making,’ where village residents themselves keep their villages clean and beautiful, selecting about 50 villages per city and county, and providing 3 million KRW annually for three years ▲limiting speed in residential, commercial, and industrial areas within urban areas to within 50 km/h ▲adding rural homestays to facilities required to have disaster liability insurance, with fines up to 3 million KRW for non-subscription depending on the period ▲mandating hazardous materials-related national technical qualifications and safety education for drivers transporting hazardous materials in drums, plastic containers, etc., starting in June ▲providing 60,000 KRW monthly honorarium to May 18 Democratic Movement veterans and their families ▲providing education participation allowances (50,000 KRW for elementary, 100,000 KRW for middle, and 200,000 KRW for high school students) to support out-of-school youths’ return to school and self-development, among others.

Detailed information on the systems and policies changing next year can be found in the information disclosure section of the Jeollanam-do website.

Soyeongho, Jeonnam Province Policy Planning Officer, said, “We plan to distribute booklets through public institution websites and SNS within the province so that residents can use the systems and policies changing next year effectively,” adding, “We will continue to actively discover systems and policies based on resident-first principles so that residents can feel ‘pleasant changes’ and ‘happy changes.’”

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