Vacant Houses in East Coast Fishing Villages Transformed into Youth Startup Spaces... Hanhwa Power and Gyeongbuk Province Sign Business Agreement

Vacant houses abandoned in fishing villages along the East Coast of Gyeongbuk are being transformed into residential and startup spaces.

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (President Hwang Ju-ho) signed a business agreement on the 30th at the Gyeongbuk Provincial Government East Office with Gyeongbuk Province to utilize vacant houses in fishing villages within the province and launch a regional revitalization project.

After Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) signed a business agreement with Gyeongbuk Province on the "Utilization of Vacant Houses in Coastal Villages and Regional Revitalization Project," Park Cheon-jung, Head of KHNP's Win-Win Cooperation Division (left), and Lee Kyung-gon, Director of the Marine Fisheries Bureau at the East Coast Regional Headquarters of Gyeongbuk Province, are holding up the agreement document.

Through this agreement, the two organizations plan to renovate vacant houses in fishing villages in the Gyeongbuk area to provide housing and startup spaces for youth and local activists, and to operate cultural and economic activity programs. This aims to solve the vacant house problem while promoting youth support and regional economic revitalization.

This project is being promoted using support funds from Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, centered on the Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant Headquarters (Gyeongju) and Hanul Nuclear Power Plant Headquarters (Uljin). It is expected to establish itself as a pioneering cooperation model that solves regional issues through collaboration between public and private sectors within the region. Through this, KHNP plans to contribute to creating a vibrant fishing village community where youth and local residents can live together.

Hwang Ju-ho, President of KHNP, stated, “We will continue to actively support region-tailored projects such as the fishing village vacant house regeneration project so that areas around nuclear power plants can become better places to live and stay.” He added, “We hope this agreement will open new possibilities for fishing village areas in Gyeongsangbuk-do and become an important turning point where the region and youth coexist and prosper together.”

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