[Agricultural Fisheries and Livestock Newspaper=Reporter Lee Han-tae] “With the introduction of public seasonal labor, foreign workers are entering, leading to the transformation of idle land into cultivated land, and there are reports of increased farm income as the burden of labor costs has decreased. It is said that vitality is gradually sprouting in the aging countryside through public seasonal labor.” Shin Jeong-sik, Chairman of the Public Seasonal Labor Operation Farmers' Association (Chairman of Andong Waryong Farmers' Cooperative), explains that the countryside, which was struggling with aging and labor shortages, is changing through the public seasonal labor program. In particular, he explains that public seasonal labor has managed to stabilize the previously competitively skyrocketing labor costs to some extent by securing the needed labor force.