Jang Wook-hyun, Mayor of Yeongju, Gyeongbuk, "New Year: One Step Closer to Preparing Future Food Sources and Restoring Livelihoods"

Jang Wook-hyun, Mayor of Yeongju City.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Gwi-yeol] Mayor Jang Wook-hyun of Yeongju City said, "In the new year, we will operate key projects that will become future growth engines and various livelihood stabilization policies to make this year a year that accelerates the sustainability of Yeongju City."

On the 2nd, Mayor Jang presented the administrative policies and vision for seven major areas this year.

Mayor Jang stated that he will swiftly respond to rapidly changing internal and external administrative changes and create a communication platform to engage with citizens, achieving both daily recovery and future growth simultaneously.

Yeongju City plans to focus its administrative capabilities on preparing for global events such as the 2022 Yeongju World Punggi Ginseng Expo and Seonbi World, securing designation approval for the advanced bearing national industrial complex as a future growth engine, constructing the central region east-west transversal railway as a logistics industry hub, and promoting the Eurasian continental railway base international KTX station.

In the agricultural sector, the city plans to build an Agriculture 4.0 Data Center in line with policies to strengthen the data agriculture ecosystem. In the cultural tourism sector, based on Yeongju Dam, the city will create a national century garden in the upper stream area of Yeongju Dam and a world-class tourism and leisure complex to secure domestic and international tourism demand, aiming to develop an attractive premium healing tourism city.

Additionally, Yeongju will expand tourism and resident life complex infrastructure such as the new Yeongju Station building, station area urban regeneration New Deal projects, and station area parking towers. The city will also accelerate the creation of Yeongju-style experiential tourism facilities based on Yeongju Dam and Sobaeksan Mountain, including the Sobaek Forest Tourism Complex, Yeongju Dam Adventure Space, mountain sports experience complexes, and paragliding.

Mayor Jang expressed his determination, saying, "We will mobilize administrative power to achieve the globalization of Yeongju agricultural specialties through the hosting of the 2022 Yeongju World Punggi Ginseng Expo and the opening of Seonbi World, and to give momentum to the establishment of the advanced bearing national industrial complex."

Mayor Jang said, "Without being bound by the old, we will take the attitude of 'Jahajakgo (自我作古)', meaning creating something new by ourselves, and make Yeongju leap forward to a new level."

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