Our Village Nurtured by My Own Hands ... Haman-gun, Resident-Led Village Development Project

by Lee Seryeong

Published 24 Jan.2022 17:33(KST)

Updated 10 Aug.2025 17:52(KST)

300 Million KRW Invested, Up to 500 Million KRW Support per Village

Gyeongnam Haman County Office.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Seryeong] Haman County, Gyeongnam Province, is promoting the 2022 Village Making Project contest, which is autonomously and systematically led by residents.

The Village Making Project is a project where residents develop their rural daily living areas such as education, culture, welfare, and environment by themselves using the characteristics and resources of the village, and establish and improve plans to revitalize the village community.

The project is conducted in five areas: capacity-building projects to revitalize village communities for residents, cultural and welfare projects utilizing idle village spaces, landscape improvement projects and income-increasing projects using unique village resources, and disaster prevention projects for safety.

A budget of 3 billion KRW will be invested, selecting six villages and supporting up to 500 million KRW per village.

The application period is from January 18 to 28, and the target villages are 14 villages that have won the Ara Rural Village Regeneration Project award in the past three years.

Villages wishing to apply can visit the eup/myeon office to submit the project application and resident signature list, and an evaluation committee composed of external experts will conduct on-site evaluations to select the final project recipients.

Last year, the county spent 3 billion KRW to carry out projects in six locations: Gayayeup Sanggwang, Hamanmyeon Dorim, Beopsumyeon Sapyeong, Daesanmyeon Mokji, Chilsomyeon Pyeongji, and Gugok, and plans to support discovering and promoting projects suitable for village characteristics through village-targeted consulting.

For more details, inquiries can be made to the Innovation Contest Officer of the Innovation Strategy Division of Haman County.

A county official said, “The Village Making Project is a project that spreads the awareness of cultivating my village with my own hands and revitalizes the local community,” adding, “We hope that members of each village will actively participate.”