Goheung-gun won three awards, including the Ministry of Public Administration and Security local regulation innovation evaluation. Goheung-gun (Governor Gong Young-min) won the Ministry of Public Administration and Security’s excellent organization award in the fields of ‘2024 local government regulatory innovation performance evaluation’ and ‘uniform overhaul of autonomous law registration regulations’, and secured 200 million won in special grant tax, while also securing Jeollanam-do regulations. It was announced that it was also selected as an excellent city and county in the evaluation and achieved the feat of winning ‘three awards in the field of local regulation innovation’.
This local government regulatory innovation performance evaluation is conducted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety every year for local governments across the country, and is conducted by experts in the fields of ▲ efforts to improve central regulations ▲ efforts to improve regulations on shadow behavior ▲ efforts to improve regulations closely aligned with companies and residents ▲ cases of regulation improvement and comprehensive regulatory plans. After a comprehensive evaluation by the evaluation team, awards are given to organizations that have contributed to regulatory innovation. In addition, the performance evaluation of registration regulations is divided into four groups for the abolition and relaxation of regulations and correction of system errors, and 10 local governments are selected as excellent local governments in order of highest score.
In this evaluation, Goheung-gun improved the ‘Regulation Newspaper’ approach within the county’s representative website (homepage), ▲ held a regulation contest with the public, ▲ improved the discovery of 1 department/town/village regulation, ▲ operated a visiting local regulation reporting center, and listened directly to the voices of the county residents. Implemented policies for improvement effectively. As a result, 46 unreasonable regulations were discovered and 23 of them in need of urgent improvement were proposed to the central government, and more than 30% were accepted.
In addition, it was highly evaluated for realizing a policy that was substantially helpful to residents by inspecting the registration regulations within autonomous laws and easing or abolishing 10 excessive or unnecessary regulations, such as the imposition of a construction enforcement fee and the interest rate for installment payment of fishing port facility usage fees. .
A military official said, “This award is a result of the residents and administration working together,” and added, “We will continue to make Goheung an even better place to live through regulatory innovation that prioritizes the voices of the residents.”
Meanwhile, Goheung-gun announced that it achieved more valuable achievements than any previous year in the field of population policy this year, including securing 31 billion won in national and provincial funds and receiving institutional commendations five times.
In particular, as a result of its performance in securing national and provincial funds, it was selected as an ‘excellent region’ among 89 local governments in declining population areas nationwide in the ‘2025 Local Extinction Response Fund Investment Plan Evaluation’ hosted by the Ministry of Public Administration and Security, and secured the largest fund of 16 billion won. .
The Local Extinction Response Fund is a fund in which the central government provides financial support to metropolitan and basic local governments for a total of 10 years, 1 trillion won per year from 2022 to 2031, in order to promote local extinction response projects led by regions. This fund is distributed differentially according to the results of the investment plan evaluation by local government.
In addition, it was selected for the ‘Jeonnam-style 10,000-won housing public offering project’ hosted by Jeollanam-do, securing provincial funding of 15 billion won, which is the entire project cost, and on the 17th, a business agreement was signed with Jeonnam Development Corporation, the developer, to successfully promote the project.
The Jeonnam-style 10,000-won housing development project will build 50 public rental apartments for young people and newlyweds, provide monthly rents of 10,000 won, and support residence for up to 10 years. This project aims to promote not only residential stability, but also local settlement, overcoming the crisis of population extinction, and revitalizing the local economy.
Goheung-gun also achieved outstanding performance in the 2024 evaluation of central government and Jeollanam-do population policies. It received the ‘National First Place Award’ in the performance evaluation of the integrated platform for returning to rural, rural and rural areas hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, and in the evaluation hosted by Jeollanam-do, it received ▲ ‘Grand Prize’ in the comprehensive evaluation of population policy, ▲ ‘Excellence Award’ in the comprehensive evaluation of rural, rural and rural areas, and ▲ ‘Encouragement Award’ in the comprehensive evaluation of jobs. He won a total of 4 awards, including:
In addition, it received the honor of winning the award in the return-to-rural/village city category for six consecutive years at the ‘2024 Korea Brand Hall of Fame’ hosted by the Institute for Industrial Policy (IPS) and sponsored by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.
The ‘Korea Brand Hall of Fame, which celebrates its 8th anniversary this year, is the most prestigious award in the brand field that selects the brands most loved by consumers in each field in Korea through a contest and announces the winners. In particular, the Goheung-gun brand ‘Goheung, No. 1 returning to rural areas’ won the award for 6 consecutive years. Goheung-gun is the only county in the country to achieve this achievement.
County Governor Gong Young-min said, “In a situation where local regions are at risk of disappearing due to low birth rate and aging population, securing national and provincial funding and receiving numerous awards in the field of population policy is an achievement achieved through the efforts of county and town population policy officials.” In order to attract the population that will become the future growth engine of Goheung, differentiated population policies such as securing quality jobs, customized support for returning to rural areas, and expansion of settlement base are being pursued to increase Goheung’s population to 100,000. “We will do our best to achieve this,” he said.
A military official said, “The foundation of this award is that the policy to respond to population decline, which was proactively promoted throughout the military administration by making local extinction a top priority, has led to the best results ever,” and “We have improved the system through the enactment and revision of ordinances.” ▲ Upgrading the Population Policy Department to the Population Policy Office ▲ Establishing a settlement-based and immigration policy team ▲ Changing the town/myeon general affairs team to a population administration team, etc. to improve the implementation of population increase policies. “It has been strengthened,” he said.
Economy Queen Reporter Hana Choi Photo: Goheung-gun
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