Jeonnam Province's Representative Welfare Policy 'Uri Dongne Bokjigidongdae' Draws Attention from Other Cities and Provinces

Kim Yong-pan, People Power Party National Assembly Member, Business Benchmarking Visit

In March, also from Jeonbuk Province... Business Inquiries Continue Nationwide

‘Our Neighborhood Welfare Task Force’ is gaining attention as an outstanding nationwide policy, beyond being a representative welfare initiative of Jeollanam-do, with benchmarking inquiries pouring in from other cities and provinces.

According to Jeonnam Province on the 24th, Kim Yong-pan, a member of the National Assembly (People Power Party, Daegu Dalseo-gu B), visited Jeonnam to benchmark the Welfare Task Force project.

On this day, Assemblyman Kim met with Governor Kim Young-rok at the Jeonnam Provincial Office to hear about the background of the Welfare Task Force launch and the achievements over the past six years, then moved to Yeongam County to observe the Welfare Task Force’s volunteer activities improving the living conditions of vulnerable groups.

This visit comes three years after the 2021 National Assembly Public Administration and Security Committee’s Jeonnam Province audit, when the Welfare Task Force project was praised as “the most exemplary policy in the era of decentralization, worthy of benchmarking.”

Assemblyman Kim said, “The activities demonstrated by Jeonnam’s Welfare Task Force are very impressive,” adding, “I will do my best to introduce this model in Daegu so that more residents can receive welfare benefits.”

Following Assemblyman Kim’s visit, in March, Jeonbuk Special Self-Governing Province visited Jeonnam to review the policy implementation cases and subsequently launched and operated their own Welfare Task Force, with benchmarking inquiries from other cities and provinces continuing to come in.

Our Neighborhood Welfare Task Force was first launched nationwide in April 2019, and currently, all 319 teams across cities, counties, and towns are active. So far, it has supported 163,500 households, accounting for 18% of all households in Jeonnam, and the number of Welfare Task Force members has grown from about 2,000 at the start to approximately 4,700 now.

The Welfare Task Force project received the Excellent Case Award at the 3rd Innovation Field Relay in 2021 (Ministry of the Interior and Safety) and the Excellence Award at the 18th Korea Local Autonomy Management Competition in 2022, being introduced as an outstanding policy nationwide beyond Jeonnam’s representative welfare initiatives.

Additionally, the Welfare Task Force project has been recognized as a successful case of public-private cooperation welfare, pursuing the public value of enhancing welfare for low-income and vulnerable groups, and was selected as a Ministry of Economy and Finance lottery fund project in 2023, enabling more substantial project implementation.

Governor Kim Young-rok said, “Thanks to the Welfare Task Force members who dedicate themselves to volunteering in the welfare field, this project is receiving great attention nationwide,” and added, “We will actively support the Welfare Task Force project, a representative policy of Jeonnam Province, to open an era of happiness across the country.”

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