Goheung County Secures 15 Billion Won in National Funding for Haechangman Drainage Improvement Project

Establishing a Safe Farming Foundation
for Preventing Farmland Flooding

Goheung County in Jeollanam-do (Governor Gong Youngmin) announced on the 4th that it has secured 15 billion KRW in national funding from the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs for the 2025 Podu Songsan District Drainage Improvement Project.

The Podu Songsan District has been in urgent need of maintenance due to chronic flooding of farmland caused by repeated heavy rainfall every year, leading to extreme fatigue among local farmers.

Goheung County secured 15 billion KRW in national funding from the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs for the 2025 drainage improvement project in the Podu Songsan District. Photo of Haechang Bay. Provided by Goheung County

To address these issues, Goheung County has continuously appealed to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and Jeollanam-do for the necessity of the project. As a result, it has been selected as a basic survey district for drainage improvement in 2025. This project will renovate 7.3 km of drainage channels to resolve the chronic flooding problem in 107 hectares of farmland in Songsan-ri, Podu-myeon.

In particular, this project will be carried out with full national funding. It is being evaluated as the result of relentless efforts by Governor Gong Youngmin and related public officials, who visited central government agencies frequently to secure the national budget and alleviate the county’s financial burden.

Governor Gong Youngmin stated, “Starting with the Podu-myeon Songsan District Drainage Improvement Project, we will gradually resolve the chronic flooding problems in the vast Haechangman reclaimed land, and do our utmost to improve the farming environment and establish a stable agricultural production base for local residents.”

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