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The Ministry of Justice is expanding support for farmers by using those subject to community service orders to alleviate labor shortages in rural areas.
The Ministry of Justice announced on the 7th that it is deploying people subject to community service orders to support farms suffering from labor shortages during the fall harvest season.
Recipients perform necessary work on site, including harvesting crops, transporting them, and organizing them.
By the first half of this year, the Ministry of Justice had assigned 50,000 social service recipients to farms across the country with labor shortages.
Starting in September, we expanded the scale of support to rural areas to coincide with the harvest season, and plan to deploy 100,000 beneficiaries to rural areas across the country by the end of the year.
Acting Minister of Justice Lee Jin-soo said, "Through community service orders, we will actively support the lack of labor in rural areas and ensure that farmers can enjoy the joy of harvest on time."
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