Park Jiwon: "Actively Responding to Population Decline in Rural and Fishing Villages and the Disappearance of Local Regions"

Representative Proposal of Four Amendment Bills Including the National Finance Act

Park Jiwon, Member of the National Assembly.

Park Ji-won, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea (representing Haenam, Wando, and Jindo in South Jeolla Province), announced on the 19th that he has proposed a package of four amendment bills?including the Statistics Act, the Basic Act on Local Government Fund Management, the National Finance Act, and the Special Act on Support for Population Decline Areas?to urge the government to actively respond to the population decline in rural and fishing communities and the risk of regional extinction.

The four amendment bills aim to clarify policy objectives by reflecting indicators related to regional extinction as designated statistics under the Statistics Act, expand the government's contribution to the Regional Extinction Response Fund from the current 1 trillion won to 5 trillion won, and abolish the contribution deadline. In addition, they exempt preliminary feasibility studies for projects aimed at expanding the living population and mandate special grants for areas experiencing population decline.

Park stated, "Policies that expand the living population?including residents, foreign workers, and others?and related support must be reflected across all areas of government in order to revitalize rural and regional communities. That is why we are revising everything from national statistics to project assessments and the national tax system." He emphasized, "I will continue to actively identify and improve institutional measures to address the decline in rural populations and the risk of regional extinction."

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