Seongsan Jin, Seongnam Mayor, Visits Traditional Market to Gauge Public Sentiment Ahead of Chuseok

Visited 4 Traditional Markets Including Moran Folk 5-Day Market... Encouraged Merchants

Seongnam Mayor Shin Sang-jin is purchasing seaweed at Jungang Public Market on the 9th ahead of Chuseok.

Shin Sang-jin, mayor of Seongnam City in Gyeonggi Province, visited four traditional markets, including Moran Folk 5-Day Market, on the 9th, about a week before the Chuseok holiday, to encourage the merchants.

On that morning, Mayor Shin purchased Korean traditional sweets and rice cakes with Seongnam Love Gift Certificates at Moran Folk 5-Day Market and exchanged kind words with citizens who came to shop, urging them to use traditional markets more frequently.

He then visited Hyundai Market, Jungang Public Market, and Geumho Happiness Market, where he introduced various city policies aimed at revitalizing commercial districts to the merchants.

Seongnam City is the first in the nation to provide youth employment subsidies to young merchants in traditional markets and is also fostering ‘Hip Stores’ that lead commercial district trends.

Mayor Shin Sang-jin of Seongnam said, "The difficulties faced by merchants are very severe due to rising prices caused by the economic downturn," adding, "To improve customer parking convenience, we established the second public parking lot exclusively for visitors to Moran Folk 5-Day Market in January this year, and we will continue to do our best to restore traditional market commercial districts."

Meanwhile, Seongnam City is supporting young merchants in Seongnam by providing the nation’s first youth employment subsidies to help them lead the next-generation future commercial districts. The city is also conducting a ‘Hip Store Audition’ recruitment until October 4th to support their growth as ‘Hip Stores’ that drive commercial district trends.

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