Cold Storage Facility Installed at Anyang Agricultural and Marine Products Wholesale Market After Last Year's Heavy Snowfall... Governor Kim Dongyeon Keeps His Promise

A cold storage facility has been installed at the Anyang Agricultural and Marine Products Wholesale Market in Gyeonggi Province, which suffered significant damage from record-breaking snowfall in November last year, and began operations in June.

On November 28 last year, the roof of the produce building at the Anyang Agricultural and Marine Products Wholesale Market collapsed due to the heaviest snowfall in 117 years. As a result, 66 merchants operating in the produce building experienced severe business disruptions.

Gyeonggi Province Governor Kim Dongyeon visited the site on November 29, the day after the collapse, and returned in March this year to inspect the damage situation.

Anyang Agricultural and Marine Products Wholesale Market Cold Storage

Governor Kim Dongyeon listened to merchants' concerns that the existing cold storage facility was unusable and that this was affecting product quality. He provided an emergency provincial subsidy of 1 billion won to enable the installation of a new facility in the first half of this year.

With the provincial funding, Anyang City installed a new cold storage facility covering 563 square meters and renovated the existing 374-square-meter facility. The affected intermediate wholesalers have been using these facilities since May 27.

Park Jongmin, Director of the Agricultural, Marine, and Life Sciences Bureau of Gyeonggi Province, said, "Gyeonggi Province is working to prioritize the urgent problems faced by merchants suffering at their workplaces," adding, "We will do our utmost to ensure the smooth restoration of the collapsed produce building as well."

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