Sancheong-gun Prioritizes Residents' Livelihood Stability with Next Year's Main Budget of 650.3 Billion Won

172 Billion KRW Increase Compared to This Year... Submitted to the County Council

Sancheong-gun, Gyeongnam Province announced on the 25th that it has prepared a 2025 main budget of 650.3 billion KRW and submitted it to the Sancheong-gun Council.

The budget for next year increased by about 17.2 billion KRW, or approximately 2.72%, compared to last year, with the general account at 593.4 billion KRW and the special account at 56.9 billion KRW.

The main sources of revenue include 211.2 billion KRW in national and provincial subsidies, 254.2 billion KRW in local allocation tax, 32.9 billion KRW in local tax revenue, and 33.6 billion KRW in non-tax revenue.

Sancheong County Office marker stone.

In particular, despite difficult financial conditions such as a decrease in local allocation tax, the budget was increased because national and provincial subsidy grants were raised compared to last year.

The budget size by major sectors is ▲Agriculture, Forestry, and Marine Fisheries at 175.5 billion KRW, accounting for the largest share, ▲Social Welfare, Health Care, and Education at 139.5 billion KRW, ▲Culture, Tourism, and Environmental Protection at 124.8 billion KRW, and ▲Public Order and Safety at 21.8 billion KRW.

Key projects included in the 2025 main budget are ▲Elementary Student Happy Growth Support Project at 670 million KRW ▲Rural Hub Revitalization Project at 11.1 billion KRW ▲Rural Space Maintenance Project at 10.7 billion KRW ▲Happy Culture Center Construction Project at 2 billion KRW ▲Obu Gamasil Area Soccer Field Development Project at 2.1 billion KRW ▲Jungsan-dong Tourist Site Maintenance Project at 1.8 billion KRW ▲Steep Slope Collapse Risk Area Maintenance Project at 2.5 billion KRW ▲Disaster Risk Improvement District Maintenance Project at 5.7 billion KRW ▲Township LPG Pipeline Network Construction Project at 4.7 billion KRW ▲Agricultural Worker Dormitory Construction at 1.1 billion KRW ▲Sancheong Food Integrated Center Operation at 1.8 billion KRW, among others.

In particular, Sancheong-gun has made efforts to enhance financial effectiveness by proactively responding to the risk of regional extinction, investing in urgent livelihood tasks and current projects without hesitation, while boldly reducing conventional and inefficient projects to promote expenditure efficiency.

The budget proposal submitted by Sancheong-gun for next year will be presented at the 302nd Sancheong-gun Council’s 2nd regular session, reviewed by the Budget and Accounts Special Committee, and finalized at the plenary session.

County Governor Lee Seung-hwa stated, “The 2025 main budget prioritizes fulfilling promises to residents and revitalizing the struggling local economy through the steady implementation of key projects, including those pledged during the 8th elected term. The year 2025 will be when large-scale projects that have been prepared so far are fully launched, and we will do our best to revitalize the local economy and improve residents’ quality of life through sound financial management.”