Hwasun-gun Holds Resident Participatory Budget School

Encouraging Participation Through Resident Participatory Budget School Operation

Hwasun County in Jeonnam announced on the 22nd that it held the ‘2023 Hwasun County Resident Participatory Budget School’ to enhance residents’ understanding of the participatory budget and to encourage proposals.

The lecture was attended by Hwasun County Governor Gubokgyu, Councilor Jeong Yeonji, Councilor Kim Jisuk, and about 100 residents, providing an opportunity to learn about and empathize with the resident participatory budget system together.

Hwasun County Governor Gubokgyu is delivering a greeting to the residents while holding the Resident Participation Budget School.
Photo by Hwasun County

The resident participatory budget system is a system that encourages expanded resident participation in the budget formulation process to ensure transparency and democracy in budgeting. The ‘Resident Participatory Budget School’ was organized to increase residents’ understanding of this system and to promote participation through publicity.

At this year’s Resident Participatory Budget School, lecturer Lee Wangjae from the Nara Salrim Research Institute gave the lecture.

The lecturer explained budgets and finances in an easy-to-understand manner for residents and made the lecture on the resident participatory budget system more accessible by citing various excellent cases implemented by local governments as examples.

Governor Gubokgyu emphasized the importance of the resident participatory budget system, saying, “The management of Hwasun County is something that residents create together,” and urged residents to present diverse proposals not for personal gain but for the community and, ultimately, for the entire Hwasun County.

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