The Future of Gyeongnam Province, 'Islands Where You Want to Live and Visit'

Presentation of 2 Major Policy Goals, 3 Key Policy Areas, 10 Strategies, and 30 Implementation Tasks

Gyeongnam Province held a final report meeting for the establishment of the 'Comprehensive Island Development Plan'.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Saeyan] Gyeongsangnam-do held a final report meeting on the project for establishing the 'Comprehensive Development Plan for Islands in Gyeongsangnam-do' at the provincial government office on the 18th.

Recently, August 8th, 'Island Day,' was designated as a national holiday, and efforts to discover the value of islands, including the fishing village New Deal, are increasing, marking a national shift in island policies.

Compared to this, Gyeongnam, which has the second largest number of islands (806) nationwide, has in fact lacked interest and investment so far.

Accordingly, under the judgment that a unique mid- to long-term island development plan for Gyeongnam, suitable for local conditions and responsive to environmental changes, is necessary, the project has been underway since January last year.

To this end, the Gyeongnam Research Institute presented the vision for Gyeongnam-do's island development policy as "Islands where people want to live and visit," setting two main policy goals: securing the sustainability of islands and maximizing the value of islands.

The 10 major strategies to realize this include maintaining the sustainability of island communities, maintaining and expanding inhabited islands, building island resource data, protecting and preserving island environments, smart islands in the Yokji area, leisure islands in the Saryang area, strengthening competitiveness of island fisheries, fostering island agriculture, enhancing island tourism competitiveness, and future island transportation networks.

Thirty major tasks to achieve the 10 strategies were also proposed, including ▲introducing an island resident allowance system ▲promoting the introduction of a public coastal passenger ship system ▲preventing the publicization of inhabited islands ▲strengthening island accommodation competitiveness ▲and establishing maritime transportation networks connecting islands.

The results of the discussion on this day will be reviewed and reflected in the 'Comprehensive Development Plan for Islands in Gyeongsangnam-do.'

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