Suwon Selects 7 New Suppliers for Hometown Love Donation Incentive Products

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Jeong Jun-seong] Suwon held the fourth meeting of the '2025 Suwon Hometown Love Donation Incentive Product Selection Committee' at the city hall situation room on the 11th and newly selected 7 companies as incentive product suppliers.

Prior to this, Suwon had publicly recruited companies to supply incentive products provided to donors of the Hometown Love Donation program.

The city evaluated applicant companies based on △corporate public interest △local connectivity △business credibility △operations and distribution management △identity, excellence, and marketability △and implementation capability, then selected new suppliers.

Selected companies include △Suwon Tteok Bi (assorted nutritious sticky rice cake, mugwort sticky rice cake, pumpkin sticky rice cake) △Suwon Dang (frozen pumpkin sirutteok) △Local Co., Ltd. (hand warmer cushion, Suwon-themed doll) △Slow (slow cookie set) △Kkumtul Cooperative (Suwon Hwaseong tea) △Bареun Ipmat Research Institute (codonopsis jeonggwa, codonopsis tea, ginseng jeonggwa, jujube jeonggwa) △Paldal Bakery (sand cookie).

Suwon plans to conclude business agreements with the selected incentive product suppliers by December 24.

With the additional selection of suppliers on this day, the number of Hometown Love Donation incentive products increased from 58 to 72 items.

Since September, Suwon has been registering KT Wiz professional baseball commemorative merchandise as incentive products for the Hometown Love Donation program.

A Suwon city official stated, "We will continuously discover new incentive products to vitalize Suwon's Hometown Love Donation program."

Meanwhile, the Hometown Love Donation program provides tax deductions at a certain rate to donors when people living elsewhere donate to their hometown or other local governments.

The local government receiving the donation can provide incentive products within 30% of the donation amount.

Last year, Suwon raised 324.24 million won through the Hometown Love Donation program and provided 3,577 incentive products.

Donations are not limited to one's hometown. Citizens of all local governments except Suwon can donate to Suwon.

Suwon residents can donate to all basic and metropolitan local governments nationwide except Suwon City and Gyeonggi Province. Donations can be made through the online platform (Hometown Love e-um system) or at NH Nonghyup Bank reception counters.

Tax deductions of 100% apply to donations of 100,000 won or less, and 16.5% for amounts exceeding 100,000 won.

For example, a donation of 100,000 won provides benefits worth 130,000 won (100,000 won tax deduction and 30,000 won incentive product).