Goheung-gun Receives Excellence Award in Jeonnam Province Population Policy Comprehensive Evaluation

Proactive Population Decline Response Policy Achievements... Awarded for 2 Consecutive Years

Positive Reviews for Population Policies Including "Goheung Population 100,000 Leap Hope Project"

[Goheung=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Shim Jeong-woo] Jeonnam Goheung-gun (Governor Gong Young-min) announced on the 21st that it received the ‘Excellence Award’ at the 2022 Population Policy Evaluation Excellent Local Governments Awards Ceremony hosted by Jeollanam-do on the 20th.

With this evaluation, Goheung-gun, honored for two consecutive years last year, achieved a one-step higher result than the previous year this year, receiving high external recognition for the achievements of establishing and promoting the nation’s first dedicated population policy department among local governments nationwide.

The Population Policy Excellent Institution Evaluation was conducted to create an atmosphere to overcome population issues and to spread excellent cases by evaluating and awarding cities and counties that actively promoted population policies.

The evaluation was conducted in two stages: the first quantitative and qualitative evaluation and the second presentation evaluation of excellent population policy cases. Goheung-gun was finally selected as an excellent local government through nine items including population increase/decrease rate, performance in Jeonnam-do public project promotion related to population, total fertility rate, and a presentation of excellent population policy cases from January to October.

In particular, the evaluation received high praise by introducing excellent population policy cases such as ▲Goheung Population 100,000 Leap All-Citizen Population Policy Hope Project ▲Goheung-type Childbirth Encouragement Public-Private Happiness Partnership Project ▲Goheung-type Youth Support Projects including Business Succession.

Since 2018, Goheung-gun has established a dedicated population policy department and systematically promoted various customized population policies by interlinking policies on incoming population, marriage, childbirth, child-rearing, education, youth jobs, and return-to-farming and fishing villages.

Governor Gong Young-min said, “Being selected as an excellent institution in population policy amid the threat of local extinction is an achievement gained through efforts with the residents,” and added, “To overcome the regional population decline issue, we will do our best together with all residents who are the lifeline of Goheung and the expatriate hometown friends to achieve the leap to a population of 100,000 in Goheung.”

A Goheung-gun official said, “Next year, we will expand and promote customized, perceptible mid- to long-term population policies focused on resident and living populations through a comprehensive SWOT analysis of the internal and external environment of the region, and devote all efforts to responding to population decline.”

Goheung=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Shim Jeong-woo hss79@asiae.co.kr

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