Hampyeong-gun 'Selecting 102 Students · Scholarship Benefits up to 3 Million Won'... Scholarship Certificate Award Ceremony

[Hampyeong=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Chunsu] Hampyeong County, Jeollanam-do announced on the 14th that it held the scholarship certificate awarding ceremony for the first half of this year’s Hampyeong County Talent Development Fund on the 13th at the county office’s main conference room, attended by 31 scholarship student representatives, Lee Sang-ik, Hampyeong County Governor, and Kim Hyung-mo, Chairman of the Hampyeong County Council.

The ceremony was conducted simply with minimized attendance and in compliance with government quarantine guidelines such as wearing masks to prevent COVID-19 infection.

On that day, Governor Lee presented scholarship certificates to 31 student representatives (22 high school students and 9 university students) and encouraged them.

Earlier, the county accepted scholarship applications for the first half of this year starting from mid-March. About 150 applicants, including high school and university students, participated during the approximately two-week application period, and the county finally selected a total of 102 students based on priority selection criteria using the submitted documents.

The total scholarship support amount is about 160 million KRW across five categories: academic excellence (new high school and university students), welfare (high school students), and special talents (high school and university students).

Each student can receive scholarships ranging from a minimum of 200,000 KRW to a maximum of 3 million KRW.

The county plans to deposit the scholarship funds into individual accounts by the end of this month once the duplicate scholarship payment review is completed.

Governor Lee said in his congratulatory speech, “Good talents are the competitiveness of the region,” and promised, “We will do our best to provide various administrative and financial support so that more local students can receive broad scholarship benefits in the future.”

Meanwhile, according to the county governor’s pledge implementation plan, Hampyeong County established a new regional talent scholarship (for university students) starting this year, increasing the related budget to about 1.9 billion KRW (including the reserve fund), which is about five times more than last year, and plans to accept and support second-round scholarship applications for university students in the second half of the year.

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