Gimhae City Secures 63.6 Billion Won in National Funding for Culture and Forestry Projects

On the 8th, Heo Seong-gon, Mayor of Gimhae (first on the left), visited the Cultural Heritage Administration and had a meeting with Kim Hyun-mo, Administrator of the Cultural Heritage Administration (first on the right). [Image source=Gimhae City]

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Sang-hyun] Gimhae City, Gyeongnam Province, has embarked on securing national funding to smoothly advance local cultural and forestry projects.

On the 9th, Gimhae City announced that Mayor Heo Seong-gon visited the Cultural Heritage Administration and the Korea Forest Service on the 8th to request national funding support for local projects.

During the visit to the Cultural Heritage Administration, Mayor Heo requested a total of 14.63 billion KRW in national funding for three projects: 6.93 billion KRW for the construction of the Gaya Relics Excavation Experience Center, 7.5 billion KRW for the creation of the Digital Gaya History and Culture Park, and 200 million KRW for the urgent excavation survey of the Baekja kiln site in Mukbang-ri, Sangdong-myeon.

In particular, the Digital Gaya History and Culture Park is a project linked with the National Gaya History and Culture Center, scheduled to open in 2024, and requires prompt advancement to enable simultaneous opening.

Additionally, the designation of the Gusan-dong dolmen, confirmed as the world's largest dolmen, as a national historic site was also proposed.

During the visit to the Korea Forest Service, requests were made for national funding support totaling 49 billion KRW for five projects: a 20 billion KRW increase for the establishment of the National Gimhae Forest Center, a 10 billion KRW increase for the creation of the National Yongjibong Natural Recreation Forest, 5 billion KRW for the establishment of the National Healing Forest, 5 billion KRW for the Green New Deal Network project, and 9 billion KRW for the creation of urban wind path forests.

Among these, for the Yongjibong Natural Recreation Forest, which is scheduled to officially open in April, requests were made to expand infrastructure for operating various programs, and for the National Gimhae Forest Center, scheduled for completion in 2024, an increase in green funds was requested to expand facilities.

A Gimhae City official stated, “As a central city for forest welfare in the Busan-Ulsan-Gyeongnam region, we will do our best to provide better forest welfare services to citizens.”

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