Assemblyman Kim Mun-su calls for expanded government funding for rural basic income pilot programs and nationwide expansion.

The only alternative to prevent local extinction, urgent need to increase national budget by over 80% and establish a nationwide expansion roadmap Kim Moon-soo, Chairman of the Jeonnam Provincial Assembly (Together Democratic Party·Sinan 1) strongly urged the "increase in national budget for the rural basic income pilot project" at the 395th 2nd regular session 2nd plenary meeting held on the 17th. This proposal emphasizes the necessity and policy expansion of rural basic income as a fundamental solution to the national crisis of population decline, aging, and local extinction in rural and fishing villages. The "Rural Basic Income Pilot Project" is a project adopted as a national task by the government to respond to the crisis of population decline and to eliminate regional disparities. It plans to select seven counties from 69 regions with population decline across the country to operate the pilot project for two years starting next year. The core of the project is to issue ...