Maintaining an Annual Scale of 400 Participants
Selecting 200 People Each in the First and Second Half of the Year
Integrating Hope, Happiness, and Local Community Jobs
Streamlining Application and Operation Systems
Chuncheon City in Gangwon Province (Mayor Yuk Donghan) will improve the operation of its public job programs starting in 2026, aiming to provide more systematic and safer employment opportunities.
Next year, Chuncheon City's public job programs will operate on a scale of 400 participants annually. The program will consist of 336 positions for the Hope Jobs initiative, 20 for the Happiness Jobs initiative, and 44 for the Local Community Jobs initiative, with 200 participants selected in each half of the year. As a result, the average number of participants per session will increase from 164 this year to 200 next year, representing an approximately 22% increase year-on-year.
Eligible participants are Chuncheon citizens aged 18 or older whose household income is less than 70% of the median income and whose assets are less than 400 million won. The recruitment announcement for the first half of the year will be posted on the city’s website in January next year.
This year, the city provided public jobs to a total of 462 people through the Hope, Happiness, and Local Community Jobs programs. Participants have supported administrative services in the field by assisting with environmental maintenance, public work support, and policy promotion, thereby contributing to the livelihood stability of vulnerable job seekers.
Building on these achievements, the city will refine its public job program operations to be more systematic from next year. The three public job programs-Hope Jobs, Happiness Jobs, and Local Community Jobs-which have previously been operated in similar ways, will be integrated into a single system. Participants will apply during the same period but will be registered separately according to the type of program.
The programs will be held twice a year, in the first and second halves, as a regular schedule. Considering that more than half of the participants are seniors in their 60s or older and that a significant portion of the work involves field duties such as environmental maintenance, the city will exclude the summer heatwave period from program operations and strengthen pre-job safety and health education to improve working conditions.
In addition, the city will enhance its management methods to improve the quality of public jobs. Through participant evaluations that reflect work attitude and field adaptability, the city aims to foster a diligent work environment and address fairness issues arising from repeated participation.
Lee Youngae, Director of Economic Promotion, said, "The public job program has played a vital role in supporting sites closely connected to citizens’ daily lives," adding, "Next year, we will continue to operate stable and safe public job programs based on our achievements so far."
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