Yun Byeong-tae, Mayor of Naju, Visits Central Government Departments... Full Effort to Secure National Budget for Next Year

Published 08 May.2024 13:44(KST)

Yoon Byung-tae, mayor of Naju City in Jeollanam-do, is making every effort to secure national funding for 2025 by visiting central government ministries every week.

According to the city on the 8th, Mayor Yoon visited the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Innovation, and the Ministry of Education on the 24th of last month and the 1st of this month to directly explain local issues for 2025 and actively requested support to ensure they are reflected as much as possible in the government budget proposal.

Mayor Yoon Byung-tae of Naju is taking a commemorative photo after a meeting with Kim Dong-il, Budget Director of the Ministry of Economy and Finance.
[Photo by Naju]

During a meeting with Kim Dong-il, Director of the Budget Office at the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, he strongly emphasized the necessity of Naju City's pending projects and asked for cooperation in securing future government budget support.

With Ryu Kwang-jun, head of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Innovation, he requested that government R&D projects, including the establishment of the ‘Superconducting Conductor Testing Facility’ promoted by Korea Energy University, be supported without any setbacks.

He also met with Jeon Jin-seok, Director of the Education Autonomy Cooperation and Safety Bureau at the Ministry of Education, to request active support for Naju City's Education Development Special Zone and to propose that Dongshin University be officially designated in the Ministry of Education-led ‘Glocal University 30’ contest.

The major proposed projects from Naju City total 86 projects with a requested amount of 241.9 billion KRW (national funds), including 31 newly discovered projects amounting to 31.4 billion KRW (national funds).

Key new national funding proposals include the ‘Artificial Sun Research Facility Construction,’ which will be a core growth engine for the region, as well as the ‘Future Energy Semiconductor Industry Support Platform Construction’ and the ‘New High-Voltage Power Equipment Testing and Certification Infrastructure Construction’ to establish the city as a leading energy new industry hub.

Also included are projects such as ‘Development of Safety Management and Remanufacturing Circulation Technology for Used Batteries’ to expand battery industry infrastructure, and the ‘Bitgaram Sprout Playground Construction Project’ to improve residential conditions in Bitgaram Innovation City.

Mayor Yoon said, “We will actively advocate for key pending projects such as energy new industries, which will be the future growth engines of the region, to be reflected in the government budget. In particular, we will closely cooperate with Jeollanam-do and central government ministries until the government budget is finalized and engage in timely national funding activities.”

Meanwhile, on the 3rd, the city held a meeting chaired by Mayor Yoon to review the progress of the 2025 national funding proposal projects and checked the status of budget acquisition efforts by each department.