Yongjae Lee, Gwangyang Mayor Preliminary Candidate, Announces Youth Policy Pledge

JUMP Project for Youth Self-Reliance Support and Local Life Settlement Support

Employment and Startups, Housing Settlement, Youth Workforce Development and Capacity Building, etc.

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Heo Seon-sik] Lee Yong-jae, a preliminary candidate for mayor of Gwangyang, announced that he plans to provide integrated living support services for stable generational establishment, including jobs, income, housing, education, and marriage, targeting local youth and incoming young people from outside the region. He also intends to institutionally establish and gradually expand emotional and economic support systems.

He added that he will prepare specific implementation plans for each policy task and promote them step-by-step and systematically, sparing no effort to support youth employment, entrepreneurship, and job security.

Candidate Lee Yong-jae pledged to expand the region-led youth job support project by operating a youth cultural market (Youth Mall) and aiming to nurture 20 youth start-up communities during his term through a mobile youth job support project.

Candidate Lee emphasized that to foster youth manpower and strengthen capabilities, opportunities must be maximized for young people by sharing and exchanging their talents and knowledge.

He also stressed the need to actively appoint local community experts and leaders as mentors to guide and encourage youth, cultivate youth cultural activists, and revitalize Sarasil Art Village, thereby fostering youth cultural leaders.

Candidate Lee promised, “While showing interest in stabilizing young people’s residential life, we plan to create and operate urban and rural youth share houses. We will also prepare youth return-to-farming and return-to-village policies and actively support them through youth hope loan guarantees and low-interest loans (in cooperation with local agricultural cooperatives or Saemaeul Geumgo, etc.).”

Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Heo Seon-sik hss79@asiae.co.kr

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