Seongnam City Recruiting 440 Participants for Public Work Project... Until the 24th of This Month

Participants in the public work program are engaged in environmental maintenance and quarantine projects.

Seongnam City in Gyeonggi Province will recruit 440 applicants who wish to participate in the first phase of next year's public work project from the 20th to the 24th of this month.

Participants in the public work project will be assigned to 67 workplaces such as community farms, Pangyo Clean Net, and Dong Administrative Welfare Centers from January 15 to April 25 next year for four months to perform tasks such as environmental maintenance.

Those aged 18 to 64 will work 5 hours a day, 5 days a week, and receive 49,300 KRW per day (based on 5 hours). Those aged 65 and older will work 3 hours a day, 5 days a week, and receive 29,580 KRW per day (based on 3 hours).

All participants will receive an additional 5,000 KRW per day for transportation and snack expenses, and depending on age, they will also benefit from mandatory enrollment in the four major social insurances.

Eligibility requires being a Seongnam citizen aged 18 or older with work ability, and a member of a household whose combined income is 60% or less of the median income and whose assets are 400 million KRW or less.

Applicants must bring their ID and other supporting documents to the administrative welfare center of their residential district during the application period.

Seongnam City will select participants considering household income, assets, and number of dependents, and announce the results on its website and notify individuals on January 4, 2024.

Seongnam City has secured a budget of 10.826 billion KRW for public job projects targeting a total of 1,742 people to create public jobs.

The public job projects are broadly divided into ▲Public Work Project for 1,320 people (budget 6.437 billion KRW) ▲Community Job Project for 322 people (budget 2.128 billion KRW) ▲Specialized jobs utilizing mid-career professionals (Ministry of Employment and Labor public project) and specialized professional jobs (city’s own project) for 100 people (budget 2.261 billion KRW).

Job seekers can participate according to separate recruitment announcements for each job starting from January next year.

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