Suncheon City Sets Job Policy Goal to Create 15,000 Jobs

COVID-19 Response and Green·Digital New Deal Job Projects
Job Creation Linked to New Growth Industries and Economic Policies Including 3 Major Oasis
Strengthening Support for Customized Jobs for Employment-Vulnerable Groups
Discovery and Expansio

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] Suncheon City (Mayor Heo Seok) announced on the 3rd that due to the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis, which has led to a decrease in employment rates and a challenging local job market, it plans to implement job policies aiming to create 15,000 jobs this year to recover the real economy and stabilize people’s livelihoods.

Suncheon City will promote job creation in five directions.

▲ COVID-19 response and Green·Digital New Deal job projects, ▲ Job projects linked to new growth industries and economic policies such as the 3 Major Oases, ▲ Strengthening support for customized job projects for vulnerable employment groups, ▲ Discovering and expanding Suncheon-type job projects, ▲ Expanding jobs through large-scale investment attraction.

▶ Promotion of COVID-19 response and Green·Digital New Deal job projects

Suncheon City is implementing public job projects supporting those unemployed due to COVID-19 and vulnerable groups facing difficulties by conducting thermal camera temperature checks at multi-use facilities such as terminals, stations, and city hall, COVID-19 quarantine activities, and vaccination.

Following the transition to non-face-to-face and on-tact industries after COVID-19, the city plans to support youth jobs in companies related to artificial intelligence, drones, the 4th industrial revolution, non-face-to-face video content and media industries, new material software development, smart factories, and other digital ICT-related companies. It will also support jobs in 10 Green·Digital New Deal projects linked to eco-green related companies such as green industries and new energy industries.

Additionally, Suncheon City has continuously promoted policies to revitalize the garden industry since the 2013 Suncheonman International Garden Expo.

As a result, with the opening of the ‘Suncheonman Garden Market,’ new green jobs related to the garden industry will be discovered, including the operation of garden materials and garden tree sales and distribution complexes, and training of garden experts.

▶ Job creation linked to new growth industries and economic policies such as the 3 Major Oases

Suncheon will promote startup support policies equipped with facilities, funds, and operational systems by establishing a startup incubation center for the concentration of startup policies and one-stop startup services, a Korea-China Startup Innovation Center serving as a foothold for startups entering China, and launching the Suncheon Startup Promotion Agency to build a Suncheon-type startup ecosystem.

Jobs will also be created through the operation of the Suncheonman Night Market with eco-friendly content, fostering future industries such as natural bio industries, future industry jobs through Suncheonman Job World, the 4th Industrial Cluster, VR production base center, and new growth industry and economic sector job projects like the 3 Major Oases including the Fermentation Food Center, Magnesium Center, and Startup Incubation Center.

As a next-generation Hallyu growth industry, the city plans to brand the cartoon and webtoon content industry as a city brand, operate the Global Webtoon Center as an online and offline community space, build an animation center, and support creation and production programs to attract companies and artists engaged in the cartoon and webtoon industry and revitalize the webtoon cultural industry to create related jobs.

Job projects related to lifelong education will also be discovered and promoted, including online and offline citizen education such as Suncheon e-Class and Citizen University, and job projects for training experts in culture, tourism, and ecology fields.

▶ Strengthening support for customized job projects for vulnerable employment groups

Policies will be implemented to support youth independence and employment stability, including youth job search support, youth retention incentives encouraging long-term employment, youth hope savings accounts, university job support centers, eight regional youth job projects linked to small business owners, strong and small-medium enterprises, and support for youth startup activities through the operation of youth centers, Youth Warehouse, and Youth Smile Market.

For middle-aged workers, the city will promote job projects such as the New Middle-aged Job Support Center, Life Second Act Support Center linked rewarding job projects, Middle-aged Learning Together School, and smart utilization education, and expand middle-aged social contribution jobs and career-type job contest projects.

To ensure a vibrant old age, job projects such as the ‘Hand-span Garden Green Mobile Unit,’ ‘Suncheon Prepared Anchovy,’ ‘Rest Shelter Hyu Silver Cafe,’ and ‘Alley Tiger’ will be promoted. Customized individual job support for the disabled, tailored self-support projects, public work jobs, and community jobs supporting low-income groups will also be provided.

Specialized education and employment counseling and job placement support for career-interrupted women, job creation and vocational skill development education for multicultural women including marriage immigrants, and support for professional instructors in cultural and artistic education programs will also be pursued.

▶ Discovering and expanding Suncheon-type job projects

For young and middle-aged people wishing to return to farming and rural areas, the city will provide free rental of remodeled vacant houses in rural areas called ‘Gongjakso’ as living spaces for five years, offering simple electrical repairs and life conveniences to elderly living alone and vulnerable groups in villages. It will also expand the Suncheon-type MacGyver project by installing a ‘Shared Blacksmith Shop’ as a MacGyver incubator and joint creative production studio to create jobs for young and middle-aged people.

Job creation projects will also be promoted through operating the Suncheon-type Youth Job Cafe, which supports customized programs for job seekers such as youth employment counseling and placement, expert consulting, employment lectures, self-analysis, job exploration, and career exploration, linking these to actual employment.

Suncheon-type urban regeneration platform job projects will be promoted through fostering village enterprises and creating startup spaces, including the Vital Vitamin Lowland Regeneration Project, Jangcheon-dong Terminal Regeneration Project for creating a platform to enjoy together, Saetteul Village Project for a leap to a better life, Suncheon Station Area Regeneration Project as the center of 21st-century railway renaissance, and Deokyeon-dong Sogyo Regeneration Project, the first in the new town.

▶ Expanding jobs through large-scale investment attraction

Suncheon City is focusing on creating jobs by attracting living SOC infrastructure such as hotels, foreign educational institutions, and medical institutions, leveraging its ecological brand.

Last year, the city added bioindustry and knowledge information culture industries to target companies moving into the Urban High-tech Industrial Complex and Oeseo Agricultural and Industrial Complex, concentrating its efforts to proactively respond to job projects linked to future economic trends and government industrial policies in preparation for the post-COVID era.

Mayor Heo Seok of Suncheon said, “In preparation for the with-COVID era, we will complete a happy ecological economy city Suncheon with good and abundant jobs by shifting to citizen-experienced job policies linked to Green·Digital New Deal job projects and new growth industries and economic policies such as the 3 Major Oasis industries.”

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