Community Center for 'Experience and Accommodation' Operated by Residents
Hapcheon Haeinsa Sorigil Accommodation Camping Experience Recreation Village Panorama (Photo by Hapcheon-gun)
[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Hapcheon-gun, Gyeongnam announced on the 20th that it has been selected for 55 districts (worth about 170 billion KRW) including the Comprehensive Maintenance Project for the Location, Rural Hub Revitalization Project, and Creative Village Making at the regional and village levels by challenging the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs contest.
Since 2010, through the full-scale General Rural Agricultural and Fishing Village Development Project, local residents have been enhancing the vitality of their communities on their own, improving living conditions in rural areas, and reviving a sense of community living together.
Recently, as exchanges between urban and rural areas have been activated to feel the leisure and harmony with nature in rural areas, visits to rural areas have become more frequent and vitality has increased.
The county utilizes community centers created through the General Rural Agricultural and Fishing Village Development Project as rural experience and recreation villages, operated directly by local residents.
Currently, the Gaya Area Sori Masil, Bongsan Area Leisure Ville Bongsan, and Deokgok Area Bammari Community Center have been designated as experience and recreation villages, providing experience and accommodation services to urban visitors to Hapcheon.
Ssangchaek Healing Center and Yongju Mulan-gae Pine Village are scheduled to open by the end of this year.
It is highly anticipated that if the community centers used by residents activate the exchange between urban and rural areas, they will provide unique experiences and healing to hometown visitors and urban residents visiting the area.
County Governor Moon Jun-hee stated, “Rural development projects to revitalize the region are steadily progressing,” and expressed his determination to “make every effort to ensure that rural development projects led by residents take root well and help improve the quality of life of residents.”
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs is conducting the General Rural Agricultural and Fishing Village Development Project as a contest project targeting cities and counties nationwide to increase the income and basic living standards of residents in agricultural and fishing villages, enhance the amenity (comfort) of these areas, maintain the population, and promote specialized regional development.
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