Yongin City Wins 'Best Excellence' at Manifesto Best Practice Competition

Job and Employment Environment Improvement
Mayor Sang-il Lee: "Actively Introducing Innovative Policies for City Development"

Yongin City in Gyeonggi Province announced on the 1st that it won the Grand Prize in the "Job Creation and Employment Environment Improvement Category" at the "2024 National Basic Local Government Heads Manifesto Best Practice Competition."

This competition, hosted by the Korea Manifesto Practice Headquarters, has been held since 2007 to discover and spread excellent pledges and policy cases of local governments nationwide, marking its 14th edition this year.

This year, out of 353 cases submitted by basic local governments nationwide, 186 cases that passed the first document screening competed in the finals. Yongin City presented a case titled "The Future Created Together by Urban and Rural Areas, the Power of Agriculture! Yongin Special City Agricultural Technology Center," showcasing the introduction of advanced agricultural technology to create new jobs and link them to startups.

Officials from Yongin City, who won the grand prize at the Manifesto Best Practice Competition, are celebrating their award.
[Photo by Yongin City]

The city introduced cases providing jobs to citizens wishing to return to farming or rural areas by operating the Yongin-style smart agriculture and smart agriculture internship programs. It received favorable reviews for presentations highlighting the importance of agriculture to urban residents through the activation of companion plants and the enactment of ordinances to foster and support healing agriculture, aligning with the new trend of urban and healing agriculture.

Additionally, Yongin introduced the "Yongin Rural Theme Park," which serves as a hub connecting urban and rural areas, and "Yongin Green University" for nurturing agricultural talents. The city also received high praise for launching "Yongin's Soban," a processed food brand of Yongin's agricultural specialty products, through the Agricultural Products Comprehensive Processing Support Center, which helped increase farmers' sales. Previously, the city achieved approximately 5 billion KRW in sales through events such as the "Yongin Soban Food Festival."

Mayor Lee Sang-il of Yongin said, "We will continue to faithfully implement pledged projects promised to citizens and actively introduce innovative policies for the development of the city."

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