Sunchang-gun Holds 'Business Leaders Meeting'... Discussing Job Creation Strategies

On the 25th, Sunchang-gun, Jeonbuk Province, announced that it held the '2023 Businesspersons Meeting' in the video conference room on the 2nd floor of the county office to address the difficulties faced by businesspersons and to find ways to create jobs.

At the meeting, Choi Young-il, the head of Sunchang-gun, and more than 20 local businesspersons from companies such as Daesang Co., Ltd., Sajo Industries Co., Ltd., and Korea CNT Co., Ltd. attended.

Sunchang-gun is holding a 'Business Meeting' on the 25th in the video conference room on the 2nd floor of the county office. [Photo by Sunchang-gun]

The meeting was organized to freely communicate with local businesspersons regarding support policies that are practically needed by companies, such as resolving labor shortages, addressing lodging and meal issues, expanding residential infrastructure, and strengthening various corporate support systems.

Head Choi introduced county-level support projects as well as support projects from four corporate-related institutions including the Jeonbuk Small and Medium Venture Business Administration and the Economic and Trade Promotion Agency, to help overcome difficulties caused by recent trade disputes and minimum wage increases.

He also plans to gather the difficulties faced by companies and prepare measures that can benefit companies, such as easing the requirements for support projects.

At the meeting, labor shortage was identified as the top difficulty, and the county announced plans to invest about 7 billion KRW to build dormitories for young workers linked to companies, which received great support from the businesspersons.

Choi Young-il, head of the county, said, “We will continue to actively seek support measures for the development of companies located in the agricultural and industrial complexes as well as individual sites,” and added, “We will create a business-friendly Sunchang by continuously establishing channels to communicate with businesspersons.”

Sunchang = Jeong Young-kwon, Honam Reporting Headquarters, Asia Economy baekok@asiae.co.kr