Hapcheon-gun Selected for Rural Vulnerable Area Living Condition Improvement Contest Project

37 Billion KRW Invested by 2024 to Improve Living Conditions in Ssangchaek-myeon Sangpo Village and Deokgok-myeon Yulwon Village...

Improvement of Living Conditions in Rural Vulnerable Areas of Hapcheon-gun (Sangpo Village Panorama)

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Hapcheon-gun, Gyeongnam announced on the 8th that Sangpo Village in Ssangchaek-myeon and Yulwon Village in Deokgok-myeon were finally selected in the 2021 Rural Vulnerable Area Living Conditions Improvement Project contest hosted by the Presidential Committee for Balanced National Development.

The Rural Vulnerable Area Living Conditions Improvement Project is a project to improve living conditions by expanding living infrastructure such as slate roof renovation, old house maintenance, fence and retaining wall repair, village entrance road expansion, and improvement of traditional toilets, as well as providing elderly care and health management programs, so that residents in vulnerable areas can be guaranteed a minimum quality of life.

To be selected for this contest, the county started with a village residents' project briefing session from September last year, followed by field surveys and contest preparations. As a result, after evaluations by Gyeongnam Province and the Balanced Development Committee, two villages were finalized as project sites.

The county plans to invest 3.7 billion won over four years until 2024 to promote projects such as improving living environments including slate roof renovation and village road maintenance, as well as human care and resident capacity building.

Moon Jun-hee, mayor of Hapcheon-gun, said, “Improving the deteriorated living conditions of our county’s villages will bring great vitality to the villagers, and since this is a project with the highest satisfaction among local residents, we will continue to discover target villages and do our best to be selected for central government contest projects.”

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