Daejeon City and Districts Unite Scattered Small Business Support Methods into One

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Daejeon City and its autonomous districts will integrate their previously separate small business support methods into a single system for management.

The city announced on the 18th that it has decided to build and operate an "Online Integrated Support System for Small Businesses" in collaboration with the five autonomous districts.

The integrated system is being established to unify the support measures individually promoted by each district, in addition to the city's special daily recovery support, aiming to resolve complaints such as differences in support amounts, promotional limitations, omission of applicant eligibility, and duplicate applications.

The decision to build the integrated system was made through an agreement between the city and the five autonomous districts at the "23rd Daejeon Decentralization Policy Council (video conference)" held that morning.

At the meeting, Mayor Heo Tae-jeong of Daejeon and the heads of the five districts recognized the problem that although the central government and local governments have been implementing various small business support policies since the outbreak of COVID-19, differences in the timing, target recipients, and support amounts of each project have caused confusion on the ground, and they reached a consensus on the need for improvement.

Accordingly, the city and the five autonomous districts plan to first unify the small business support projects they have individually promoted so far and jointly build and operate a system that can comprehensively handle the entire process of promotion, application, and payment of support funds for each project.

Mayor Heo Tae-jeong of Daejeon said, "Due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, small business owners and self-employed individuals are exposed to threats to their livelihoods," and added, "The city will focus administrative efforts on cooperating with the autonomous districts to ensure that prompt and sufficient support measures are prepared and implemented."

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