Gwangju Buk-gu, Recruiting Small and Medium Enterprises for Dormitory Rental Support Program

On the 1st, Buk-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City announced that it is recruiting local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to participate in the 'Worker Dormitory Lease Support Project.'

This project, launched for the first time this year, was prepared to alleviate the manpower shortage and expand employment in SMEs by improving workers' residential conditions and stabilizing their lives.

Buk-gu plans to support up to 80% of the lease fee when SME business owners with annual sales of less than 12 billion KRW lease one-room units, apartments, villas, officetels, etc., located within the district, and provide them as dormitories for workers.

The support scale is limited to up to 2 dormitory rooms per SME, with a total project budget of 42 million KRW, providing support for up to 7 months with a monthly limit of 300,000 KRW per room.

As a support requirement, workers who will move into the dormitories provided by the company must have an address in Buk-gu, and at least one employee must have been hired for less than 3 years as of the announcement date.

Companies wishing to apply for support can submit their applications via email to the Job Project Department of the Gwangju Economic and Employment Promotion Agency by the 12th, and further details can be found on the BizBuk-gu or Gwangju Economic and Employment Promotion Agency websites.

A Buk-gu official stated, "One of the biggest difficulties for companies is the chronic manpower shortage, which greatly affects workers' conditions as well," adding, "We hope this project will contribute to revitalizing the local economy by improving the working environment of SMEs and promoting employment."

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