Korea Self-Reliance Welfare Development Institute, '2025 Gangwon-Jeju Area Self-Reliance Policy Forum' held

The Korea Self-Reliance Welfare Development Institute (hereinafter referred to as the Development Institute, Director Hae-Sik Jeong) will hold the '2025 Gangwon-Jeju Region Self-Reliance Policy Forum' (hereinafter referred to as the Gangwon-Jeju Self-Reliance Policy Forum) at the 60th Anniversary Memorial Hall of Kangwon National University's Chuncheon Campus on the 17th.

This forum is the first event of the 'Mobile Local Self-Reliance Policy Forum', which will be held for the third year following 2023 and 2024, and is co-hosted by the Development Institute, the Korea Metropolitan Self-Reliance Center Council, and the Korea Regional Self-Reliance Center Association, and co-hosted by the Gangwon-Jeju Metropolitan Self-Reliance Center and the Gangwon-Jeju Branch of the Korea Regional Self-Reliance Center Association.

The theme of the first forum in 2025 is 'Infrastructure improvement measures for finding ways to promote self-reliance in rural areas.' It is expected to be a place to reexamine the role of self-reliance in responding to complex regional issues such as population decline, aging, and job loss, and to seek policy alternatives and revitalization measures for self-reliance in rural areas.

Development Institute Director Jeong Hae-sik said, “This forum is a place to seek realistic ways for self-reliance projects to function as welfare infrastructure in rural and fishing villages,” and “Based on voices from the field, the Development Institute will strengthen the support system for implementing policies so that self-reliance projects can grow together with local communities.”

Applications for participation in the 2025 Gangwon-Jeju Regional Self-Reliance Policy Forum are accepted through the Self-Reliance Information System Education and Training website until the 17th, the date of the forum.


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