Seongbuk-gu Wins Local Job Award for 3 Consecutive Years

Seongbuk-gu Honored with Job Creation Award from Local Governments Nationwide for Three Consecutive Years

Seongbuk-gu Wins 'Excellence Award' in the 2023 National Local Governments Job Creation Award Public Disclosure Category

Job Creation through Revitalization of Local Commercial Districts and Customized Job Creation by Target Secures Incentive Project Funds

Seongbuk-gu (Mayor Lee Seung-ro) received the 'Excellence Award' in the public disclosure category at the '2023 National Local Governments Job Creation Award' hosted by the Ministry of Employment and Labor, held on the 2nd at the Sejong Convention Center.

This marks the honor of winning the award for three consecutive years, following the 'Special Award' in 2021 and the 'Excellence Award' in 2022. With this award, Seongbuk-gu secured 70 million KRW in national government budget to promote job creation projects along with a commendation from the Minister of Employment and Labor.

The 'National Local Governments Job Creation Award' is an annual competition hosted by the Ministry of Employment and Labor that evaluates regional job projects based on the previous year's performance among local governments nationwide, shares best practices, and awards outstanding cases. This year, 226 metropolitan and local basic governments participated nationwide.

Seongbuk-gu received high praise for its efforts to stabilize the local economy by creating jobs for vulnerable employment groups in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, implementing vocational training, providing disaster relief funds, supporting youth employment and entrepreneurship through a public-private-academic regional council, building job infrastructure tailored to local characteristics, and promoting regional economic revitalization projects.

The district supported youth employment and entrepreneurship by utilizing local infrastructure and fostering cooperation among public, private, public institutions, and academia through initiatives such as ▲ establishing the Gireum Youth Startup Street ▲ operating the One-Person Creative Enterprise Center ▲ conducting Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship Academies ▲ and running the startup experimental space popup store ‘Gongeopsa’.

Seongbuk-gu is also undertaking new challenges to innovate the local fashion industry. It operates the Seongbuk Smart Fashion Industry Center to connect local manufacturing companies with youth enterprises, participates in developing planned products through collaboration between the joint brand ‘Yours’ and local manufacturers, and hosts designer exhibition popup stores.

Efforts are also being made to create a safe working environment for workers. Face-to-face safety and health law training is conducted to establish a labor culture system where workers are safe and respected, aiming to improve job quality.

Mayor Lee Seung-ro of Seongbuk-gu stated, “Job creation is a key project of the 8th local government administration. I am pleased to receive such positive recognition as a result of our efforts to fulfill promises to residents. Despite the challenging employment market conditions due to the economic slowdown, we will proactively respond to environmental changes to revitalize local commercial districts and support youth employment and entrepreneurship by creating quality jobs tailored to the district’s characteristics.”

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