Jogyuil Jinju Mayor: "Government's Hasty LH Staff Reduction... Requesting Measures for Over 5,000 Job-Seeking Students"

Expressing Commitment to Building 'Jinju Aerospace City' Linked with Innovation City Season 2

Mayor Jo Gyu-il is announcing Jinju City's official statement on the LH garden reduction on the 12th.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Jo Gyu-il, mayor of Jinju City, Gyeongnam Province, on the 12th demanded, regarding the Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) restructuring plan, "Due to the government's hasty reduction of LH staff, which has halted employment for university students in the Jinju area, prepare special measures such as 'separate quotas' and hire new employees."

On the same day, Mayor Jo, along with Lee Young-chun and Yoon Hyun-joong, co-representatives of the Jinju Innovation City (LH) Protection Movement Headquarters, made this demand at the city hall briefing room and emphasized, "The city will devote itself to building Jinju as a space aviation city linked with Innovation City Season 2."

Mayor Jo and others stated, "Summarizing the remarks from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and LH national audit, it is known that a restructuring plan was approved to transfer LH's main functions to other agencies such as the Ministry of Land and reduce 1,064 staff members in bulk."

Regarding this trend, Mayor Jo and others mentioned, "It is at least a fortunate outcome that the organizational restructuring based on the premise of LH's dissolution is no longer being discussed."

Mayor Jo said, "The LH new employee recruitment schedule for this year has not been finalized, and resignations among LH employees, mainly young people, are continuing," and appealed to the government to "prepare measures for about 5,000 students in the Gyeongnam area who are preparing only for LH employment."

He introduced, "During the national audit, both ruling and opposition parties criticized the government's hasty push for LH reform," and criticized the current government’s rushed efforts, saying, "The detailed implementation plans for function transfer, staff reduction, and organizational restructuring should be handled carefully and thoroughly reviewed from a mid- to long-term perspective by the next government."

He continued, "If the government tries to forcibly dissolve LH, we will join forces with citizens and do our best to protect Jinju Innovation City and Jinju City with even stronger determination than now."

Mayor Jo expressed his will, saying, "We will convert the energy and united will spent on preventing LH dissolution into full efforts to build a prosperous space aviation city," and "To this end, we will actively promote Innovation City Season 2, including the second relocation of public institutions from the metropolitan area, strive to reflect this in the next presidential election pledges to create a space aviation industry ecosystem, and elevate Jinju City as a mecca of the space aviation industry."

Since the announcement of the LH innovation plan in June, the Jinju Innovation City Protection Pan-Citizen Movement Headquarters has held a pan-citizen rally in front of the LH headquarters, held several gatherings in front of the government complex in Sejong City, and promoted a national petition opposing LH dissolution.

At the press conference, Mayor Jo and co-representatives Lee Young-chun and Yoon Hyun-joong decided to temporarily suspend the street campaign against LH dissolution and devote all efforts to the future development of Jinju, using Jinju Innovation City as a base.

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