Ministry of Land, Ministry of Education, and 8 Other Ministries Sign Business Agreement for 'Regional Vitality Town Development'

On the 16th, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced that eight ministries, including the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, and the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, signed a business agreement to create Regional Vitality Towns.

This agreement was conducted under the auspices of the Local Era Committee, which supports the national goal of promoting a "Local Era where it is good to live anywhere in the Republic of Korea."

Regional Vitality Towns are projects that create residential complexes combining housing, culture, and welfare in non-capital basic local governments to support the settlement of retirees and young people in the region. The pilot project, which started this year, selected 7 out of 21 basic local governments to carry out the project.

According to this business agreement, the Ministry of Education newly joined in 2024 to expand inter-ministerial support for the Regional Vitality Town project, and each of the eight ministries will share roles according to their characteristics, while also expanding support for national subsidy projects.

The new project sites for 2024 will be selected nationwide through an integrated call for proposals by related ministries targeting cities, counties, and districts starting in January next year. Through the schedule of call initiation → submission and evaluation → selection, about 10 sites will be selected in the first half of next year.

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