Goheung-gun Wins 'Grand Prize' in Jeollanam-do Comprehensive Evaluation of Returning Farmers and Fishing Villages

High Evaluation for Achievements in Attracting Returnees to Farming and Fishing Villages, Promotion and Education Efforts, and Communication with Local Residents

[Goheung=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Shim Jeong-woo] Goheung-gun, Jeollanam-do (Governor Song Gwi-geun) announced on the 3rd that it won the grand prize in the 2021 Jeollanam-do Return-to-Farming and Return-to-Fishing Comprehensive Evaluation.

This award comprehensively evaluated 15 items including the performance of attracting return-to-farming and return-to-fishing residents, promotion and education efforts, communication between local residents and returnees, and independent project performance of cities and counties across 21 cities and counties in Jeollanam-do.

Since the 7th local government administration, Goheung-gun established the Population Policy Division, the first among local governments nationwide, and has taken the lead in attracting return-to-farming and return-to-fishing residents. It also opened the nation’s first local government-operated ‘Return-to-Farming and Return-to-Fishing Happiness School’ to provide preliminary education and temporary housing for urban residents wishing to return to farming and fishing.

In addition, aiming to raise 10 billion KRW for the Naesarang Goheung Fund, it has raised 9 billion KRW to implement various policies to attract urban residents, such as settlement incentives for returning youth, housing repair support, youth support for business succession, and youth challenge projects.

Thanks to these efforts, Goheung-gun was selected in October as the leading city in the return-to-farming and return-to-fishing category at the 1st 2021 Customer Trust Premium Brand Awards sponsored by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, and ranked first nationwide in statistics of urban residents returning to farming in 2019.

A county official said, “We will continue to develop various policies to firmly establish Goheung as a happy place where youth return as the number one destination for return-to-farming and return-to-fishing.”

Goheung=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Shim Jeong-woo sevenshim@asiae.co.kr

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