Secured 390 Million KRW in National Funds to Support Employment and Startups in Fisheries and Food Sectors

Regional Industry Customized Job Creation Contest 'Selected for 3 Consecutive Years, Mokpo City' View original image


[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Jeong Seunghyun] Mokpo City, Jeollanam-do announced on the 28th that it has been selected for the regional industry customized job creation support project hosted by the Ministry of Employment and Labor for three consecutive years.


The total project cost this time is 440 million KRW, of which 90%, or 390 million KRW, was secured as national funding.


The project is named "Mokpo-type Fisheries and Food Industry Support Job Creation Project," and the city, the Jeonnam Employment and Labor Research Institute, and the Mokpo Chamber of Commerce and Industry collaborate to promote detailed projects such as fisheries and food industrial complex employment support and fisheries and food success package startup support.


The fisheries and food industrial complex employment support project provides job seekers with ▲ Tantan job career analysis employment support service ▲ company-customized employment linkage ▲ Good Job SME awareness improvement programs to minimize mismatch rates in employment linkage.


In 2021, 337 job seekers were employed in fisheries and food manufacturing companies in areas such as the Daeyang Industrial Complex.


The fisheries and food success package startup support project recruits prospective entrepreneurs related to tourism and fisheries and food, provides technical education and startup practical training at the Mokpo Fisheries and Food Support Center, and pays initial business expenses up to 10 million KRW per person.


Additionally, to minimize trial and error, startup experts mentor management, accounting, and business plan writing, and continuously manage to ensure successful startups.


In 2021, 13 people succeeded in startups such as seafood sales, guesthouses, and bakery.



A city official stated, "We will actively apply for government public projects and strive to secure national and provincial funds to create jobs in the Mokpo-type fisheries and food industry sector and revitalize the local economy."


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