Mayor Lee Jangwoo: "We Will Enhance Measures to Reduce Public Property Use and Lease Fees for Small Business Owners"

Second Meeting with Yujeon and Jungang-ro Merchants Following Last Year

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Daejeon Mayor Lee Jangwoo emphasized, "Since small business owners are the key players in the local economy, we will do our utmost to stabilize the livelihood economy as our top priority and to enhance the effectiveness of the measures to reduce fees for the use and leasing of public property."

On the 10th, in a meeting held at the city hall's medium conference room to listen to issues related to the promotion of fee reductions for the use and leasing of public property in 2026 for small business owners in the Yujeon and Jungang-ro underground shopping malls, as well as to hear about the stabilization of the livelihood economy and their difficulties, Mayor Lee made these remarks.

Following a meeting held on December 1 last year regarding the promotion of fee reductions for the use and leasing of public property in 2025 for small business owners, a second meeting was arranged to directly hear the voices of small business owners about the promotion plans for 2026.

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At the meeting, small business owners appealed that difficulties in the business environment, such as reduced consumption due to the prolonged economic downturn, labor shortages, and rising rents, continued to persist.

In response, Daejeon City plans to swiftly align with the government's policy direction and, despite difficult fiscal conditions, promote reductions in fees for the use and leasing of public property for small business owners and small and medium-sized enterprises in 2026 based on the same criteria as in 2025, following the notice from the Ministry of the Interior and Safety extending by one year the application period for easing the burden of using public property for small business owners and others.

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