Uiwang City Holds 2024 Youth Policy Committee Regular Meeting

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Kim Chung-young] Uiwang City held a 2024 regular meeting of the 'Uiwang City Youth Policy Committee' on the 11th in the city hall medium conference room.

The committee meeting was attended by 14 youth policy committee members, including Kim Seong-je, mayor and committee chair, and proceeded with the presentation of appointment certificates for the newly formed third-term Youth Policy Committee members, and reports and deliberations on 2023 youth policy implementation results and 44 projects for 2024.

The Youth Policy Committee plans to implement △16 projects for employment and startup support and capacity strengthening △20 projects for providing social services and living support △8 projects for social advancement and network support.

Representative projects include the 'Youth Capacity Strengthening Opportunity Support Project,' which provides up to 300,000 won annually for language and qualification exam fees, and the 'Youth Job Search Activity Support Fund Payment Project,' which provides up to 1 million won in quarterly installments of 500,000 won for job search-related expenses.

In particular, the 'Youth Talent Vending Machine (Young Craftspeople Craft Products Pop-up Market Operation),' which won an honorable mention at the Youth Policy Proposal Contest held in August 2023, is planned to be operated as a new project.

Mayor Kim Seong-je of Uiwang City said, "I will do my best to implement policies that can provide practical help to young people."