Yeongam-gun Selected in the Ministry of the Interior and Safety's Hometown Olrae Contest for the 'Living in Two Regions' Category

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Yeongam-gun, Jeollanam-do (Governor Woo Seung-hee) has been selected in the ‘Living in Two Regions’ category of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety’s ‘Hometown Olrae Contest Project’ and is set to secure a living population with a total scale of 1.05 billion KRW.

Yeongam-gun Office Building Exterior View

According to the county on the 23rd, the Hometown Olrae Project, newly implemented by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety this year, reflects rapidly changing policy environments such as the risk of local extinction and increased population mobility, aiming to secure a stay-type living population in the region and establish a foundation for economic revitalization.

The project consists of six categories including Living in Two Regions, Local Study Abroad, and Retirement Village Creation. Yeongam-gun received a special grant of 500 million KRW from the Ministry of the Interior and Safety for being selected in the Living in Two Regions project and will begin full-scale operations from next year.

Through this project, the plan is to attract urban residents who are considering relocating to rural areas as a living population and eventually convert them into a settled population in the long term.

In the Hometown Olrae contest evaluation, Yeongam-gun appealed that it is an optimal destination for rural experiential tourism by presenting its experience with projects such as rural living with the beautiful scenery of Wolchulsan Mountain as a backdrop, Yeongam Seoul Farm, and Living in Jeonnam.

During this process, it conveyed achievements that revitalized the daily lives of those tired of urban living and formed a warm rural image, earning high praise from the judges.

Yeongam-gun’s Living in Two Regions project is scheduled to be implemented near the closed Gunseo-nam Elementary School in Mojung Village, Gunseo-myeon.

A county official stated, “We plan to create residential facilities that will serve as a base for urban residents’ leisure, relaxation, and experience, and prepare various rural experiential events where urban and local residents can interact, aiming to increase the living population.”

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