Gokseong-gun Begins Full-Scale Preparation for Local Extinction Response Fund

Published 09 Mar.2023 09:09(KST)

Consensus Reached at the Public-Private-Academic Industry Win-Win Cooperation Working Council

Gokseong-gun, Jeollanam-do (Governor Lee Sang-cheol) announced that it held the '1st Strategic Meeting for the Local Extinction Response Promotion System' at the Gokseong-gun Office on the 8th.

This meeting was organized to establish an investment plan for the Local Extinction Response Fund and to ensure its efficient operation in order to actively respond to population decline.

About 30 members of the public-private-academic cooperation working council, launched last November, including representatives from the Office of Education, NongHyup, Jeonnam Science University, and private organizations, all participated.

[Photo by Gokseong-gun]

The attendees shared the progress of investment projects from last year and this year at a time four months before submitting the Local Extinction Response Fund investment plan and discussed development measures.

They also gathered various opinions to secure next year's Local Extinction Response Fund.

Lee Gwi-dong, Deputy Governor and head of the working council, said, “I hope the public-private-academic cooperation governance established for the development of Gokseong-gun and the happiness of its residents will operate more actively. Also, I hope we can unite our efforts to overcome the extinction crisis by discovering additional region-tailored collaborative tasks.”

Gokseong-gun is conducting various projects to overcome the local extinction crisis, using the 16.8 billion KRW secured last year as seed money.

They are promoting nine projects in connection, including four hub-type rural study villages utilizing closed schools and the Gokseong-style youth residency space creation project.