Seosan = Yonhap News) Reporter Jeong Yun-deok = South Chungcheong Governor-elect Park Soo-hyun said on the 16th, "The first project to be approved after taking office on July 1 is the Chungnam Spiritual Movement for Chunghyoye."
President-elect Park mentioned this in her greeting at the first town hall meeting held at the Seosan Culture and Welfare Center on this day, after entering with the presidents of the Seosan and Taean area senior citizens' associations and veterans' organization presidents.
He said, “Chungnam is the home of loyalty and filial piety, but it seems like we are only talking about taking good care of our seniors, but it is not being done properly.” He added, “I will create a protocol manual to introduce and honor the president of the senior citizens’ association and the president of the veterans’ organization first at all official events.”
He added, “Only then will we be able to look at what needs to be added to policies for the elderly and veterans, and this is so important that it will never lag behind the great transformation of artificial intelligence (AI),” adding, “I will announce six symbolic declarations upon taking office.”
Regarding the pledge to restore the happiness voucher for female farmers, which was abolished in 2023, President-elect Park explained, "There are problems such as securing the budget, so it will be difficult to restore it this year, and we have decided to restore it starting next year."
At the town hall meeting on this day, Lee Seung-yeol, policy planning officer of South Chungcheong Province, suggested the development direction of Seosan City in the 9th popularly elected election, including designating the Daesan Petrochemical Industrial Complex as a national industrial complex, creating Garorimman National Marine Ecological Park, establishing Daesan Port as an international cruise base, and fostering the future air mobility industry.
Regarding Taean-gun, he cited the completion of the enactment of a special law to support areas where coal-fired power plants are abolished, the promotion of the creation of an offshore wind power complex, and the construction of a sea bridge in Garorim Bay.
At this meeting, Mayor Lee Wan-seop of Seosan asked President-elect Park to help reflect the 5th national railway network construction plan, including the opening of Seosan Airport in 2028 and the Naepo-Taean Line and the East-West Trans-Railway in the central region.
Mayor Lee mentioned that the late Chung Ju-young, founder of the Hyundai Group, sunk a large oil tanker between both embankments to cultivate the Seosan reclaimed land and visited North Korea with 1,001 cows raised there. He then said, "I proposed to Hyundai to build an exhibition museum to commemorate the achievements at that time and call it 'Jung Ju-young Plain' instead of the unidentified Seosan A and B districts, but there has been no answer yet," and added, "I hope the president-elect will take an active interest and take care of it." did it
Taean County Mayor-elect Yoon Hee-shin proposed early construction in 2028 for the Taean-Seosan section of the Taean-Anseong Expressway, which recently passed the private sector eligibility survey.
Regarding the 20th anniversary of the Hebei Spirit oil spill next year, President-elect Yoon said, "The 150.3 billion won Samsung Heavy Industries support fund allocated to Taean has not yet been used as intended and a lawsuit is ongoing. As elderly victims are gradually dying, we will ensure that it is resolved through mediation as quickly as possible." He added, "We will hold an event to honor the spirit of the 1.23 million volunteers who rolled up their sleeves during the oil spill." “I will prepare,” he said.
Meanwhile, 112 seats (60.9%) out of 184 seats in the performance hall on the second floor of the Seosan Culture and Welfare Center, where the 'Chungnam Connecting with the Provincial People' town hall meeting was held on this day, were pre-allocated to guests such as South Chungcheong Province preparation committee members, local election winners, and heads of local organizations and organizations.
As a result, dozens of residents had to stand and watch the town hall meeting for two hours without being able to sit in the empty guest seats, even though they arrived about 30 minutes before the event started.
