Yujinseop, Jeongeup Mayor, Goes All Out to Secure National Budget for Next Year

[Jeongeup=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Kim Jae-gil] Yoo Jin-seop, mayor of Jeongeup City, Jeonbuk, is making every effort to secure the national budget for next year.

According to the city on the 10th, Mayor Yoo visited the National Assembly (Members' Office Building) on the 8th to focus on last-minute persuasion to prevent cuts to projects increased at the standing committee stage and to add budgets for key projects not yet reflected.

Mayor Yoo met with National Assembly members including Yoon Joon-byung from his constituency, Shin Young-dae, Lee Won-taek, Kim Han-jung from the Budget and Accounts Special Committee, Seo Sam-seok from the Agriculture, Food, Rural Affairs, Oceans and Fisheries Committee, and Kim Sung-joo from the Health and Welfare Committee to explain the necessity and validity of Jeongeup’s key pending projects.

In particular, he asked for special attention to the Digital Theme Park utilizing Jeongeupsa (3 billion KRW), the second phase of the Southwest Memorial Park project (5.5 billion KRW), and the establishment of a demand-tailored core workforce training center for pharmaceutical processes (18 billion KRW), all recognized as necessary at the standing committee stage.

He also requested active support at the budget review committee stage for the long-standing local project of demolishing and installing the Gebobae sluice gate on Gobu Stream (4.5 billion KRW) and the vaccine safety evaluation infrastructure construction project (16 billion KRW).

Additionally, during his visit to the National Assembly, he contacted National Assembly members Jeong Un-cheon (Budget and Accounts Committee) and Jeon Hye-sook (Budget and Accounts Committee), whom he could not meet due to the standing committee schedule, by phone to ask for active cooperation in securing the national budget necessary for advancing Jeongeup City’s pending projects.

Mayor Yoo Jin-seop said, “Until June 2nd next month, when the government budget for next year is finalized, I will concentrate all administrative power to secure national funds and cooperate with Jeonbuk Province, local National Assembly members, political circles in the province, and influential figures in central government departments to secure more national funds.”

Jeongeup=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Kim Jae-gil gjg7070@asiae.co.kr

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