Samcheok City Runs 'Work-Life Balance One-Month Stay' with 10 Youths... Supporting Return-to-Farming and Entrepreneurship Experiments

Samcheok City in Gangwon Province and the Samcheok City Return-to-Farming and Return-to-Village Comprehensive Support Center are running the "Youth Work-Life Balance One-Month Stay" program in Maehyang Village (Hamengbang-ri), Geundeok-myeon, from October 15 to November 14, with the participation of 10 young people from other regions.

Samcheok City and the Samcheok City Return-to-Farming and Return-to-Village Comprehensive Support Center have been running the "Youth Work-Life Balance One-Month Stay" program from October 15 to November 14 in Maehyang Village (Hamengbang-ri), Geundeok-myeon, with the participation of 10 young people from other regions. Photo by Samcheok City

This initiative is part of the Samcheok City Return-to-Farming and Return-to-Village Attraction Support Project and the Gangwon Land Social Contribution Foundation's Village-Specialized Regeneration Planning Project. The program is designed to allow young people interested in rural life and hoping to return to farming or relocate to the countryside to escape the pressures of city life, find healing and rest in a rural setting, experience local resources, and explore opportunities for entrepreneurship and settlement.

The program begins with an orientation with local residents on the first day. During the first and second weeks, participants will take part in "Opening Your Heart," "Getting to Know the Village," rural experience activities, and "Getting to Know Samcheok." In the third and fourth weeks, the program will shift to a customized curriculum focused on planning business ideas and experimenting with entrepreneurship. Participants will receive support for accommodation, meals, training expenses, dedicated mentors, program operation costs, and expenses for entrepreneurial experiments.

A center official stated, "We will actively support differentiated programs so that urban youth with diverse goals and needs can expand from being part of the relational population to becoming settled residents, revitalizing rural communities that are losing vitality due to population decline and aging."

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