Experience Event at Sinjimyeon Ulmorae and Gunoe Smart Healing Village
Wando-gun, Jeollanam-do, has become the first in the province to implement the ‘2024 Living in Rural Areas’ project.
According to the county on the 6th, on the 5th, 20 people including officials from Jeollanam-do, the county, village representatives, and project participants gathered at Ulmore Village in Sinji-myeon for a communication session to share the project plan and listen to suggestions.
‘Living in Rural Areas,’ hosted by Jeollanam-do, is a project aimed at helping urban residents who wish to return to farming or rural living to successfully settle by experiencing rural life, jobs, and daily living before moving to the countryside.
Residents of Ulmore Village in Sinji-myeon are welcoming the first opening of the Live-in Jeonnam program. [Photo by Wando-gun]
In particular, it has attracted much attention from prospective returnees to farming and rural areas because it provides participants with opportunities for self-reliance in rural areas through customized job programs rather than simple rural experiences.
Wando-gun plans to promote the project by recruiting three groups of participants each at two locations this year: Ulmore Village in Sinji and the Gunoe Smart Healing Village.
Ulmore Village in Sinji was the first in Jeollanam-do to select five participants and began full-scale operation from the 4th.
Participants receive a training allowance of up to 300,000 KRW per month for three months and engage in rural job experiences, advanced site visits, and meetings with senior returnees to farming.
Jung In-ho, Director of the Population and Job Policy Office, said, “We hope that the ‘Living in Rural Areas’ project, implemented for the first time in Jeollanam-do this year, will be an opportunity for those wishing to return to farming or rural living to settle stably.” He added, “We will actively develop programs that leverage Wando’s unique advantages to increase participant satisfaction.”
Meanwhile, Wando-gun is promoting projects such as support for start-ups and housing purchases for returnees to farming and fishing (loans), support for repairs of farm and fishery households’ houses, operation of harmonious villages for returnees to farming and fishing rural areas, and support for youth settlement in fishing villages.
Wando = Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Kyung-pil just8440@asiae.co.kr
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