Imsil-gun and Namwon-si Seunghwawon Regionalization Usage Business Agreement Signed

Published 20 Sep.2023 11:43(KST)

Now, residents of Imsil-gun can use Namwon-si Seunghwawon under the same conditions as Namwon citizens.

On the 20th, Jeonbuk Imsil-gun announced that the day before, it held a 'Business Agreement Ceremony for the Wide-area Use of Namwon-si Seunghwawon' at Namwon City Hall together with Namwon-si and Sunchang-gun.

Imsil County held a "Business Agreement Ceremony for the Use of Namwon City Crematorium's Wide-Area Facilities" at Namwon City Hall the previous day, together with Namwon City and Sunchang County.
[Photo by Imsil County]

Accordingly, any resident of Imsil-gun will be able to use Namwon-si Seunghwawon, which has newly established cremation facilities this year, with the same qualifications as Namwon citizens.

In this agreement ceremony, Imsil-gun agreed to use Seunghwawon on the same terms as Namwon citizens in exchange for partially bearing the construction and maintenance costs of the new cremation facilities at Namwon Seunghwawon.

Currently, Imsil-gun residents could only use the facility with a reservation made one day in advance, and the usage fee was 500,000 KRW.

However, under this agreement, the usage fee is reduced to 60,000 KRW, reservations can be made from three days in advance, and both morning and afternoon reservations are possible.

In the agreement, Imsil-gun, Namwon-si, and Sunchang-gun agreed to share the modernization project of the cremation facilities to promote mutual regional development and improve residents' convenience.

They also presented a model of coexistence agreement by jointly resolving difficulties residents may face due to the installation of new crematoriums and actively sharing the costs.

This agreement is expected to be evaluated as a successful case among local governments that can serve as an advanced example for promoting similar projects in the future.

Namwon-si Seunghwawon, built in 1986, had become an aging facility causing inconvenience to many users, and recently underwent a modernization project to improve funeral convenience.

Seunghwawon is directly operated by Namwon-si and consists of a crematorium (1,942㎡), a columbarium (1,236㎡), and a memorial park (9,930㎡).

Imsil-gun and Namwon-si formed a working council to implement the agreement for the successful promotion of the project.

They plan to actively cooperate to efficiently use national land and prevent financial burdens and budget waste for local governments by sharing the costs of new construction, modernization, and maintenance of the cremation facilities.

Governor Shim Min said, “Through the wide-area business agreement for Namwon-si Seunghwawon, Imsil-gun residents can now use the facility on equal terms with Namwon citizens. They can conveniently use modern funeral cultural facilities, and we will continue to strive for various win-win development policies among neighboring local governments.”