Yeongju Social Economy Support Center Opens First in Gyeongbuk... Supporting 100 Village Enterprises and More

Opening Ceremony of Yeongju City Social Economy Support Center.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Koo Dae-sun] Yeongju City, Gyeongbuk Province, opened the Social Economy Support Center for the first time in the Gyeongbuk region on the 21st.

The Social Economy Support Center, located on the second floor of the shared platform remodeled from the old provincial public library in Yeongju City, serves as a control tower for building cooperative networks among social enterprises, discovering and nurturing new social economy organizations, and providing education.

The opening ceremony was held with about 50 attendees, including Mayor Park Nam-seo, Yeongju City Council Chairperson Shim Jae-yeon, Park Jin-guk, head of the local and Social Bee, Yeongju city council members, and representatives of social economy enterprises in Yeongju.

Yeongju Social Economy Support Center, the first established among the 23 cities and counties in Gyeongbuk Province, integrally manages about 100 social enterprises, village enterprises, and cooperatives in the area. It supports step-by-step services from discovering social economy entrepreneurs, customized consulting, social economy academy, social economy enterprise market support, to operating office spaces for resident companies, covering four major areas and nine unique projects.

Additionally, it is expected to play the role of a private sector control tower by providing consulting to citizens interested in starting social economy enterprises.

Yeongju City laid the foundation for installing and entrusting the operation of the support center through ordinance revision in December 2018, established the support center operation plan in 2021, obtained approval for private consignment, and finally began full-scale operation of the center this year.

The Social Economy Support Center is operated by three staff members including the center director and is equipped with office space, training rooms, meeting rooms, and offices for resident companies.

Mayor Park Nam-seo of Yeongju said, “With the foundation laid for creating a stable local economic ecosystem, we will do our best to nurture and support social economy enterprises through smooth communication and cooperation between the public and private sectors centered on the Social Economy Support Center.”

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