How to Respond to Regional Extinction? ... Sancheong-gun Holds Meeting on 'Population Vitality Ideas' for Returning Farmers, New Residents, and Youth

A meeting scene with returnees to farming and rural areas promoting the Local Extinction Response Fund.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Sancheong-gun, Gyeongnam Province held a session to listen to voices from the field in order to find ideas to revitalize its population.

Sancheong-gun recently held a meeting to hear opinions from local returnees to farming and rural areas and youth to secure funds for responding to local extinction.

Jo Hyung-ho, Deputy County Governor and Head of the Local Extinction Response Fund Strategy Team, personally met with returnees to farming and rural areas and youth to gather more on-site opinions for population settlement and inflow.

The meetings, held twice, first met with about 10 members of the Returnees to Farming and Rural Areas Association to collect various opinions such as ▲difficulties experienced after returning to farming and rural areas ▲cases of leaving without settling ▲expectations from Sancheong-gun administration ▲the need for informatization education in addition to returnee farming and rural education.

In the meeting with youth, opinions on population vitality from the youth perspective were shared and discussed, including ▲consideration for youth ▲cultural spaces where youth can spend holidays ▲linkage between employment and education ▲youth housing issues ▲views on population inflow and outflow.

Since February this year, Sancheong-gun has been discovering items to respond to population decline through expert groups via research projects. On April 12, it held the ‘Population Vitality Forum with the Local Extinction Response Fund Strategy Team.’

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