Mayor Kang Young-seok of Sangju City, Full Effort for High-Speed Rail 'Preliminary Feasibility Study'... Visiting the Ministry of Economy and Finance Five Days After Meeting the Prime Minister

On the 12th, met successively with the Ministry of Economy and Finance Budget Director and Budget General Review Officer

On the 7th, Sangju Mayor Kang Young-seok, who visited the Prime Minister's Office, is seen taking a commemorative photo with Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum, National Assembly member Lim E-ja, and Mungyeong Mayor Go Yoon-hwan.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Dongguk Lee] Mayor Kang Young-seok of Sangju City is making an all-out effort to secure the 2022 national budget, recently visiting the Prime Minister's Office and then the Ministry of Economy and Finance on the 12th.

According to Sangju City, Mayor Kang is moving swiftly to explain local pending projects and request support in line with the government's second budget review for the next year currently underway. In particular, when he met Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum on the 7th, local National Assembly member Im I-ja also visited together to lend support.

On the 12th, Mayor Kang Young-seok visited the Ministry of Economy and Finance and met consecutively with Choi Sang-dae, Director General of the Budget Office, Kim Wan-seop, Chief Budget Review Officer, and Lim Ki-geun, Economic Budget Review Officer.

At this meeting, he proposed the inclusion of the Mungyeong~Sangju~Gimcheon high-speed railway project’s preliminary feasibility study approval by the Korea Development Institute (KDI) and the inclusion of the National Road No. 25 Sangju (Naeseo~Hwaseo) construction project in the 5th National Road and Local Road Plan. He also requested full support and active cooperation for the national budget to ensure the smooth progress of major city administration priority projects in 2022.

Mayor Kang then met with Kim Han-young, Chairman of the Korea National Railway Corporation in Daejeon, to ask for cooperation from the Korea National Railway Corporation in promoting the 'Mungyeong~Sangju~Gimcheon high-speed railway project.' This project connects the currently unlinked sections of the Jungbu Inland Railway and the Southern Inland Railway between Mungyeong, Sangju, and Gimcheon.

Mayor Kang Young-seok pledged, "Until the reflection of the national budget for next year is confirmed, I will make every effort to secure the national budget by continuously communicating not only with the Ministry of Economy and Finance and other central government departments but also with local National Assembly members."

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