Goheung-gun Holds Meeting to Support Stable Settlement of Returning Farmers and New Residents

The No.1 Destination for Returning Farmers and New Residents 'Goheung'

Appointment of Settlement Assistants and Enhancement of Project Implementation Outcomes

[Goheung=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Shim Jeong-woo] Goheung-gun, Jeollanam-do announced that on the 11th, it held a meeting to appoint Return-to-Farming and Return-to-Village Settlement Assistants and to enhance the performance of project implementation.

The Return-to-Farming and Return-to-Village Settlement Assistants are appointed one per eup/myeon to provide practical help to returnees by fostering early bonds with local residents and introducing various policy projects. This is a population policy project of Goheung-gun aimed at the stable settlement of returnees.

Since the 7th local government administration, Goheung-gun established the Population Policy Division for the first time among local governments nationwide and formulated a five-year population policy plan containing three major strategies?Youth U-turn, Child Happiness, and Return to Hometown and Village?and 50 policy measures, striving to attract returnees.

Additionally, Goheung-gun opened the nation's first Return-to-Farming and Return-to-Village Happiness School, which has produced 309 trainees over 10 sessions so far, and established the Naesarang Goheung Fund with 10 billion KRW to support the settlement of returning youth and youth entrepreneurship funds.

As a result, during the 7th local government administration, 5,628 people who returned to farming, fishing, villages, or hometown settled in Goheung-gun. In the 'Urban Returnee to Farming Statistics' jointly announced by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Statistics Korea, and the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, Goheung ranked first nationwide in 2019, third in 2020, and in 2021 received the comprehensive evaluation grand prize for return-to-farming and fishing villages hosted by Jeollanam-do, as well as the encouragement award in the return-to-farming and return-to-village attraction performance evaluation hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.

Song Gui-geun, Mayor of Goheung-gun, said, “As the role of the Return-to-Farming and Return-to-Village Settlement Assistants, who received their appointment letters today, will be the cornerstone for those who have returned to live in Goheung, I ask for their wholehearted efforts. We will continue to discover and implement various policies to create a happy Goheung where people return.”

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

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