Kim Dong-yeon: "Even with heating cost bombshell, Yoon Suk-yeol government's focus on blaming the previous administration is deeply concerning"

[Suwon Ilbo=Park No-hun] Gyeonggi Province Governor Kim Dong-yeon criticized the government over the 'heating cost bombshell' and announced that Gyeonggi Province will concentrate support on heating costs for vulnerable populations.

Governor Kim announced on the 26th through SNS, "Even with the heating cost bombshell falling, the Yoon Suk-yeol government's focus on blaming the previous administration is deeply concerning," and stated, "Gyeonggi Province will provide 200,000 won each to 64,528 elderly households and 20,979 households with disabled members, and will provide 400,000 won each to 18 homeless facilities and 5,421 community centers for elderly citizens used as 'cold-wave shelters.' We will also provide 400,000 won each in heating costs to 786 local children's centers."

He continued, "We will swiftly execute existing heating budgets and discover and support blind spots in heating crisis through the 'Emergency Welfare Hotline (010-4419-7722),' and will focus only on the livelihood of residents rather than blaming others," he pledged.

The following is the full text of Gyeonggi Province Governor Kim Dong-yeon's SNS post.

<Bombshell Hitting People's Livelihoods, Government Busy Blaming Others>

A heating cost bombshell has fallen. Citizens are trembling not from the cold, but from heating costs.

While citizens are anxious about the Siberian cold wave, what has the government been doing?

This was an impact that could have been sufficiently anticipated. However, the government, which should protect ordinary people and vulnerable populations, is too preoccupied with fighting the past.

A larger inflation bombshell than heating costs is coming, and a more severe economic recession than the cold spell is approaching. The Yoon Suk-yeol government's focus on blaming the previous administration even as the heating cost bombshell falls is deeply concerning.

Gyeonggi Province will concentrate heating cost support to vulnerable populations including the elderly, the disabled, and the homeless.

We will provide 200,000 won each to 64,528 elderly households and 20,979 households with disabled members, and will provide 400,000 won each to 18 homeless facilities and 5,421 community centers for elderly citizens used as 'cold-wave shelters.' We will also provide 400,000 won each in heating costs to 786 local children's centers.

We will immediately deploy reserve funds and disaster relief funds worth 20 billion won to provide warmth to approximately 435,564 residents and 6,225 facilities.

Additionally, we will swiftly execute existing heating budgets and discover and support blind spots in heating crisis through the 'Emergency Welfare Hotline (010-4419-7722).'

We will focus only on the livelihood of residents rather than blaming others.

We will do our best to ensure that residents threatened in their health and survival by the cold wave and heating cost bombshell are protected.