Sejong City Provides '3rd Emergency Living Expenses' Support to Local Cultural Artists

[Asia Economy (Sejong) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Sejong City will provide the third round of emergency living expenses to local cultural artists.

The city announced on the 10th that it will accept applications for emergency living expenses for local cultural artists through the Sejong City Cultural Foundation COVID-19 Response Counseling and Support Center from the 11th to the 29th of this month.

Required application documents include the application form, consent form for the use of personal information, resident registration abstract, and certificate of artistic activity verification. The list can be checked on the city hall website or the Sejong City Cultural Foundation website.

The emergency living expense support is being promoted to assist full-time cultural artists who were excluded from the government’s third disaster relief fund support.

The support fund will be provided as an anonymous gift card of the local currency Yeominjeon. The gift card can be collected at the NH Nonghyup Bank branch in charge of the recipient’s address.

Eligible applicants must have a resident registration address in Sejong City as of the day before the announcement, the 6th, and must have completed artistic activity registration with the Korea Artists Welfare Foundation. Small business owners or freelancers who have received the government’s third disaster relief fund are excluded.

Artists who have not completed artistic activity registration as of the reference date can apply for registration at the Korea Artists Welfare Foundation and submit a certificate of artistic activity verification by December 20 of this year to receive the support.

After receiving applications, the city plans to review the eligibility of documents and notify recipients of the collection schedule and location starting from the 20th of this month. The total support scale is 200 million KRW, and the city expects about 400 people to benefit, receiving 500,000 KRW each.

Meanwhile, the city provided emergency living expenses to local cultural artists twice last year, in April and October.

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