Kim Seong, Jangheung County Governor, Focuses on 'Sustainable Development' through Attracting Current Projects

Request for Increased Budget for Key Projects Including Disabled Athletes' Marine Village and Cheongwansan Mountain Climbing School

County Governor Kim Seong: "All-Out Effort to Attract Projects Favorable for Regional Development and Securing Float

Jangheung-gun, Jeollanam-do announced on the 20th that County Governor Kim Seong visited the National Assembly on the 17th to propose local pending projects and request increased budget support for the projects.

On that day, Governor Kim met with Seo Sam-seok, chairman of the Budget and Accounts Committee, and Kang Hoon-sik, the secretary, to convey these matters.

The budget proposal projects include three items: attracting the Korea Paralympic Committee Southern Marine Training Center, establishing the Cheongwansan Mountain Climbing School, and creating the Honam Regional Forest Bio Processing Complex.

Prior to this, Jangheung-gun succeeded in reflecting five projects, including the development of the Southern Regional Wide-area Tourism and installation of waste treatment facilities, totaling 86.1 billion KRW, in the government budget through active budget activities.

(The second from the left) Kim Seong, Jangheung County Governor, proposed local pending projects to Seo Sam-seok, Chairman of the Budget and Accounts Committee, and requested an increase in the budget support for the projects.
[Photo by Jangheung County]

The Korea Paralympic Committee Southern Marine Training Center is planned to be established in Samsan-ri, Gwansan-eup, Jangheung, as a training center for disabled marine sports.

The project, with a total budget of 40 billion KRW, plans to build a comprehensive maritime training facility for sports such as rowing, canoeing, triathlon, and water marathon.

Jangheung-gun cited its mild year-round climate, the expansion of sports education infrastructure due to the establishment of the Sports Talent Development Institute, and the clean southern coast of the South Sea as advantages for establishing the training center.

The Cheongwansan Mountain Climbing School is an institution specializing in mountain climbing and trekking education.

Jangheung-gun plans to invest 8 billion KRW to build facilities such as sports climbing walls, lecture rooms, and dormitories, aiming to lead a healthy and safe mountain climbing culture.

Cheongwansan is evaluated to have excellent conditions for the mountain climbing school location, as it has a large-scale national forest under the jurisdiction of the Korea Forest Service and is suitable for tourism linked to the southern provinces.

The Honam Regional Forest Bio Processing Support Complex is a 20 billion KRW project supporting the linkage of income between natural substances derived from forests, bio-industries, and forest households.

Governor Kim Seong stated, “We will do our utmost to attract projects necessary for sustainable regional development and securing floating populations,” and added, “We plan to actively explain the necessity of the projects by visiting the National Assembly and central government ministries in the future.”

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