Gurye-gun Invests 4.8 Billion KRW to Establish Family-Friendly Infrastructure Including Family Complex Center

Seosicheon Park Children's Playground Designed with Participation from Children and Residents to be Completed in May
Family Complex Center to be Built by Next Year, Youth Training Center to Reopen Within the Year After Remodeling

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yuk Miseok] Jeonnam Gurye-gun (Governor Kim Sun-ho) announced on the 25th that it is carrying out projects to establish a family-friendly city foundation where children, adolescents, and women can live comfortably.

Gurye-gun is focusing on projects to create a local care foundation that makes residents happy by investing 4.8 billion KRW, including 550 million KRW for the creation of children's playgrounds, 3 billion KRW for the construction of a family complex center, and 1.2 billion KRW for reinforcing the functions of the youth culture house.

The first facility to be unveiled is the Gurye-style children's playground to be created within Seosicheon Park, a popular spot among local residents.

To create the playground, the county formed a joint playground promotion team in August 2019 and has been steadily progressing step by step through continuous public-private cooperation.

The direction was set through advanced site surveys and discussions.

While conducting a survey on playground equipment preferences and collecting opinions, the project went through procedures such as design and company bidding before starting the main construction.

Accordingly, after installing playground equipment and organizing the surroundings, the new playground is scheduled to open in May.

The county was selected for this year's Living SOC Complex Project by the National Balanced Development Committee and will invest a total of 3 billion KRW, including 1.5 billion KRW in national funds, to build a family complex center.

The family center is a space that provides customized family services needed for diverse family types such as families, care, multicultural families, and dual-income couples.

The complex family center to be built in Bongnam-ri, Gurye-eup, will include a joint childcare sharing center, family communication space, a care center for all, counseling and education rooms, and more.

It will complement the functions of the existing Healthy Family and Multicultural Family Support Center and expand care functions.

Additionally, it plans to support various family complex services linked with nearby senior centers and youth culture houses.

The center aims to open in September next year, with design competitions and detailed designs scheduled for this year and construction planned for next year.

The county is currently carrying out construction to remodel the old youth training center facilities in Sandong-myeon into a safe and comfortable youth activity space.

The construction is expected to be completed in the first half of the year, and a company will be selected through a bidding process for entrusted operation to ensure professionalism, with plans to reopen in August.

Governor Kim Sun-ho said, “Since the launch of the 7th local government, family-friendly facilities created through the active participation and cooperation of residents are expected to become spaces of regional vitality,” and added, “We will continue to spare no support in establishing and strengthening the local care foundation for a city where residents are happy.”

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