Yeongju City Leaps Forward as the Central City of Northern Gyeongbuk Region

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Yeongju City in Gyeongbuk has presented a new vision to lead the region's future in 2025, the Year of the Blue Snake, Eulsan year.

The city plans to continuously pursue key projects that will serve as the foundation for regional development by discovering future growth engines through relentless challenges and innovation in response to national crises such as population decline and regional extinction.

Mayor Park Nam-seo stated, "Our society faces many difficulties in the new year, including the crisis of population decline and regional extinction, continuous inflation, and economic recession, but we will find a breakthrough and lay the groundwork for a leap forward," adding, "We will find practical and feasible solutions to revive the local economy and inject new vitality, building a dynamic and new economic city, Yeongju."

To this end, the city has set goals to ▲build a future-oriented economic city through advanced future industries ▲create a distinctive tourism city where culture and nature harmonize ▲secure a stable production environment through advanced agricultural policies ▲realize a happy welfare city responding to the low birthrate and aging society ▲establish a safe city where citizens can live with peace of mind ▲and implement citizen-centered proactive administration, and plans to steadily promote these goals.

First, the city will accelerate the construction of a ‘future-oriented economic city’ through advanced future industries.

Yeongju plans to strengthen the competitiveness of the bearing industry and create an important hub that revitalizes the local economy through the Yeongju Advanced Bearing National Industrial Complex, scheduled for completion in 2027.

To this end, the city will expand investment support to attract promising materials and parts companies, revise related ordinances, and establish specialized bearing departments to cultivate professional manpower, laying the foundation for stable settlement of companies investing in the region.

While actively attracting companies to the national industrial complex, the city will create an attractive urban environment for businesses by reducing logistics costs through the opening of access roads to the national industrial complex and the construction of an alternative bypass road for National Road 28 between Jeokdong and Sangmang.

Yeongju City will also create a ‘distinctive cultural tourism city’ where culture and nature blend harmoniously.

The area around Yeongjuho Lake, constructed to improve water quality and control floods of the Nakdong River, will be transformed into a new attraction encompassing culture, tourism, and recreation. The city plans to rapidly advance related development projects centered on Yeongjuho, including a complex recreational complex, a tourist circular pedestrian bridge, a waterside ecological complex, and an illumination park.

In particular, by creating a complex leisure sports facility with various age-friendly leisure and experiential activities, Yeongju aims to become the mecca of stay-type tourism representing northern Gyeongbuk.

Efforts will also continue to restore the reputation of Sobaeksan by widely promoting its beauty through expanding new mountain tourism convenience facilities utilizing the 1,705㎢ area released from Sobaeksan National Park.

Following the opening of the KTX-Eum Seoul Station, which allows travel from the metropolitan area to Yeongju within an hour, and the full opening of the Jungang Line to Bujeon Station on December 20, the city plans to actively utilize these to develop a distinctive tourism city and a stay-type cultural city.

The city will also focus its capabilities on ‘securing a stable production environment’ through ‘advanced agricultural policy promotion.’

The introduction of foreign seasonal workers, which has been a great help to farms struggling with labor shortages, will be expanded. The city will also actively support strengthening farm competitiveness by building dormitories for farmers to solve housing issues and constructing a comprehensive distribution facility, the ‘Fruit Distribution Hub Center,’ which handles all processes from fruit sorting to distribution.

A new agricultural machinery storage facility will be built on the site of the closed Anjeong Station, and cutting-edge agricultural machinery will be introduced to reduce farmers’ cost burdens and help increase farm income.

Yeongju City will realize a ‘welfare city where all generations are happy’ in response to the low birthrate and aging society.

First, through the regional vitality town creation project selected last year, the city plans to respond to the crisis of regional extinction by providing housing facilities for youth and newlyweds and community spaces combining sports and culture.

Along with this, the city will improve the environment of the old town through the Sangmang-dong Our Neighborhood Revitalization project and enhance residential conditions by renovating vacant houses and old homes.

The city plans to revitalize the local commercial district by opening an urban planning road connecting Gahung New Town and the Tax Office intersection and continuously promoting the station area urban regeneration New Deal project. Efforts to provide a better living environment will continue with the development of Gahung Park, the creation of a Wood Culture Experience Center, and the construction of the Guhak Park Treetop Skywalk.

Welfare policies covering all generations from children to the elderly will also be expanded. The city plans to strengthen childcare services and the Family Harmony Center programs and implement various policies supporting employment and entrepreneurship to support the dreams of young people. In particular, various policies will be promoted to ensure that all generations can live healthy and happy lives, including customized health management and care services for the elderly to support their healthy old age.

To ensure a better life not only for the current generation but also for future generations, the city will strengthen eco-friendly policies and create a happy and healthy city through various health management programs such as citizen health experiences and mobile healthcare.

The city will build a ‘city that promises safety’ and an ‘open city centered on citizens.’

Among the various policies the city will pursue in the new year, great emphasis will be placed on policies to protect the lives and safety of citizens.

First, by strengthening the functions of the newly built integrated CCTV control center, the city plans to create an advanced integrated urban safety model and establish a rapid and safe response system against various accidents and crimes.

The city will strengthen safety inspections of various facilities, including the Punggi District flood and water damage comprehensive maintenance project, the Seokgwan and Sacheon natural disaster risk improvement projects, the Seocheon downstream drainage area maintenance, and the Gahung-Sangmang area natural disaster risk district maintenance project. It will also develop and implement various policies to proactively respond to natural disasters caused by climate change, dedicating all efforts to protecting citizens’ lives and property.

The city will also strive to improve practical, field-centered administrative systems that citizens and businesses can feel. By enhancing administrative efficiency, resolving inconveniences in people’s lives, expanding channels for citizen opinions to be effectively reflected in city administration, and continuously improving and innovating administrative systems, the city plans to increase trust in administration.

Mayor Park Nam-seo has set the New Year’s motto as 불여인화 (不如人和), meaning ‘Harmony is better than superiority,’ and plans to run city administration accordingly. This signifies that any difficulty can be overcome through harmony and cooperation, and he expressed his determination to continue the proud history of accumulated change and creativity to lead Yeongju’s development.

Mayor Park said, “The moments of challenging new areas and creating unprecedented value have built the Yeongju we have today,” adding, “In the new year, we will promote policies essential to citizens with a challenging and transformative attitude to enhance the region’s value and create a proud Yeongju.”