Yongin City Offers Fee Discounts at 107 Public Facilities for Multichild Families

Public Parking Lots and Childcare Support Centers See 30-50% Decrease
15 Ordinances Relax Multi-Child Criteria to '2 or More Children'

Yongin City in Gyeonggi Province will relax the criteria for multi-child families and provide up to a 50% discount on usage fees at 107 public facilities, including public parking lots.

On the 20th, Yongin City announced that it has revised 15 ordinances to overcome low birth rates, easing the multi-child family criteria from "3 or more children" to "2 or more children" and significantly expanding benefits.

The facilities eligible for discounts include ▲ Eup, Myeon, and Dong community centers (31 locations) ▲ Youth training centers ▲ Youth cultural houses (3 locations) ▲ Lifelong learning centers (2 locations) ▲ Multipurpose welfare centers (2 locations) ▲ Childcare support centers (4 locations) ▲ Public paid parking lots (39 locations), totaling 107 places. The agricultural machinery rental service at Yongin Agricultural Technology Center is also available at half price.

The city expanded benefits for multi-child families through major related ordinance revisions to respond to the worsening low birth rate and to alleviate the childcare cost burden for multi-child families.

Previously, in December 2021, the city amended the "Ordinance for Responding to Low Birth Rate and Aging Society and Sustainable Development," changing the definition of multi-child households from 3 children to 2 children, and has been promoting projects such as ▲ support for interest on jeonse deposit loans ▲ transportation cost support for birth celebrations. In November last year, the city revised the "Ordinance on the Establishment and Operation of Community Centers," providing tuition fee discounts totaling 38,183,000 KRW to 965 multi-child family citizens during the first quarter of this year.

However, the city explained that more diverse support is needed to provide practical benefits to multi-child families, and it is conducting a comprehensive review of related departments' ordinances and sequentially revising them.

In fact, the city has relaxed the definition of multi-child families from "3 or more children" to "2 or more children" in eight ordinances, including the "Ordinance on the Establishment and Operation of Media Centers." For seven ordinances, such as the "Ordinance on the Establishment and Operation of Youth Facilities" and the "Ordinance on the Establishment and Operation of School Complex Facilities," which did not specify discount criteria for multi-child families, new provisions were established to provide fee discounts to multi-child families with two or more children.

Additionally, the city plans to revise three ordinances, including the "Yongin Natural Recreation Forest Management and Operation Ordinance," which includes a 50% discount on admission fees to Yongin Natural Recreation Forest, by next month.

Mayor Lee Sang-il said, "We have revised related ordinances to broaden the scope of support benefits for multi-child families to provide practical help in raising children. We will continue to discover and improve living policies directly related to citizens' lives to ensure that people can feel that 'Yongin City has changed,' and we will do our best."

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