Full cut of subsidies... Namhae rural basic income pilot project 'on the brink of failure'

[Guja-ryong Gi, Korea Farmers and Fishermen Newspaper] The rural and fishing village basic income pilot project in Namhae County, Gyeongnam, faced the crisis of collapse after the Gyeongnam Provincial Assembly's standing committee decided to cut the entire budget of 126 billion won for the project following heated debates at the budget review stage. The Gyeongnam Provincial Assembly's Agriculture, Ocean and Fisheries Committee (chaired by Baek Su-myeong) conducted a preliminary review of the 2026 revenue and expenditure budget proposals from the Provincial Ocean and Fisheries Bureau, the Provincial Agricultural Policy Bureau, and the Provincial Agricultural Technology Institute from the 1st to the 3rd. During the review process of the Agricultural Policy Bureau's budget proposal on the 2nd, Representative Kim Jin-bu (People Power Party, Jinju) stated, "The population of Namhae County, which was 39,000, increased by about 1,000 people right after the announcement of the public recruitment project, surpassing 40,000" and "Actually living in Namhae