“Yeongju City's Future Is You” … City Makes All-Out Effort to Settle Local Talent

Promotion and Enrollment Incentives for University Student Support Projects

Support for Dormitory Fees for Students Who Change Address

Living Expenses for Local Students Attending University

Yeongju City in Gyeongbuk is making every effort to encourage local talent to settle in the region.

Promotion of the University Student Support Project for Visiting Regional Universities (Gyeongbuk College) by Yeongju City.

On the 2nd and 6th of this month, the city held campaigns at Gyeongbuk College (Hyucheon 2-dong) and Dongyang University (Punggi-eup), respectively, to promote the newly implemented support programs for local university students and the city’s relocation policies, encouraging students to transfer their residence registration to Yeongju.

The campaign involved staff from the Future Strategy Office, which oversees the city’s population policies, as well as employees from the administrative welfare centers of the towns and neighborhoods where the universities are located.

During the campaign, participants actively promoted the dormitory fee support program, which provides assistance for dormitory (monthly rent or jeonse) fees to students who transfer their address to Yeongju while attending a local university, and the living expense support program, which offers financial aid to students originally from the region who enroll in local universities.

The city supports university students who transfer their resident registration from other cities, counties, or districts to Yeongju and enroll in a local university by providing 1 million KRW annually for dormitory (monthly rent or jeonse) fees during their enrollment period (a total of 4 million KRW over four years). Additionally, students from the Yeongju area who enter local universities receive 500,000 KRW annually as living expenses during their enrollment period (a total of 2 million KRW over four years).

Yeongju City plans to establish mobile relocation service desks at local schools during the first half of the year to provide administrative support, making it easier for students to transfer their residence registration.

Officials from the student affairs offices of local universities who participated in the campaign stated that they will actively promote these support programs at the school level to encourage students who have not yet transferred their address to do so, enabling them to benefit from the related support programs.

Mayor Park Nam-seo said, “Through the support programs for local university students, we aim to alleviate the economic burden on students and establish a stable foundation for local universities, which are facing challenges due to the declining school-age population. We will respond to the population decline crisis by actively encouraging university students with addresses outside the city to transfer their residence registration to Yeongju.”

As of the end of December last year, Yeongju’s population stood at 100,749, decreasing by about 1,000 people annually. The outflow of young people is particularly severe, making it urgent to create conditions for university students to settle locally and to devise measures to prevent population loss to other regions.

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