Gyeongbuk Yecheon-gun Recruits 4 Participants for '3-Month Rural Living Experience'

Provision of Temporary Housing and Garden Plots

Monthly Training Fee of 300,000 KRW Provided

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Koo Dae-sun] Yecheon-gun, Gyeongbuk Province (Governor Kim Hak-dong) is recruiting 4 participants for the ‘Living in the Countryside’ program to promote return-to-farming and return-to-village by March 7.

This program provides temporary housing and supports training expenses so that young and middle-aged people hoping to return to farming or rural areas can actually live for up to 3 months before moving and experience farming work and other agricultural activities.

Last year, a participant in the 'Living in the Countryside' program in Yecheon-gun is experiencing farming in a vegetable garden.

Applicants must be urban residents aged 18 or older, and applications can only be submitted online through the Return-to-Farming and Return-to-Village Comprehensive Center website. Priority will be given to those receiving unemployment benefits, family participants, and those who have completed more than 10 hours of return-to-farming and return-to-village education.

Selected participants can engage in various rural experience activities such as visiting advanced farms, gardening, and handling agricultural machinery in Yucheon Guksagol Village, and if they participate in farming practice provided by the village, they can receive a monthly training allowance of 300,000 KRW.

A Yecheon-gun official said, “After the application deadline, 4 people will be selected and live in temporary housing facilities for 3 months starting from March 15, experiencing farming in a communal garden. Yecheon-gun started this program 3 years ago, and 12 people have participated so far, with some participants having returned to farming.”

Kwon Seok-jin, Director of Agricultural Policy at Yecheon-gun, said, “Recently, many urban residents are interested in returning to farming and rural areas, but without basic farming knowledge, they come down to the countryside blindly and face many practical difficulties. Through this program, we hope participants will understand rural life by actually living there and harmonize with village residents to settle stably in Yecheon-gun in the future.”

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