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YTN Radio (FM 94.5) [YTN News FM Wise Radio Life]

□ Broadcast date and time: October 11, 2024 (Fri)
□ Host: Park Gui-bin Announcer
□ Castor: Kim Yu-gon, Incheon Metropolitan Councilman

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◆ Announcer Park Gui-bin (hereinafter referred to as Park Gui-bin): Wise Radio Life This time is with the Incheon City Council, which is drawing a new Incheon special era with 3 million Incheon citizens. Today, we invited Kim Yoo-gon, the Incheon Metropolitan Council member who is the chairman of the Industrial Economy Committee of the Incheon City Council. Welcome.

◇Kim Yu-gon, Incheon Metropolitan Councilman (hereinafter referred to as Kim Yu-gon): Yes, hello.

◆Park Gui Bin: There is a camera in front of us. Can you say hello to our listeners and citizens first?

◇ Kim Yu-gon: YTN Wise Radio Life listeners and 3 million Incheon citizens, I am Kim Yu-gon, chairman of the Industrial Economy Committee of Incheon Metropolitan City Council, whose constituencies are Seo-gu Households 1, 2, 3 and Shinhyeon and Wonchang-dong, Incheon. It's very nice to say hello to our listeners and citizens through YTN radio. And I would like to thank the staff of YTN's wise radio life for inviting me.

◆Park Gwi-bin: Thank you for coming. As a first-term member of the committee, he is serving as a member of the Incheon City Council, and in the first half, he became the Cultural Welfare Committee and was elected as the chairman of the Industrial Economy Committee in the second half. The story is supported by various lawmakers, so you are now in charge of an important role, but I think your feelings will be different.

◇Kim Yu-gon: Yes, that's right. I've been in business for about 20 years and I've been proud to know a little about the economy, but the actual Incheon economy is an official city with an economy of 118 trillion won. On top of that, the parliamentary industrial economy is almost in charge of that, and our lawmakers gave me a very big responsibility. So anyway, I feel more responsibility than joy. They said they were preparing in their own way, but I think it's more weighty anyway.

◆Park Gui-bin: I think so. Seeing your voice tone and facial expressions makes you feel very pressured and you feel very heavy on your shoulders. Then should we think about the good things? Do you have anything that's really good when you're a councilor and you're a chairman like this?

◇Kim Yu-gon: Saying that it's a good thing is a bit revealing and a bit burdensome. Politicians are bound to be exposed to everything, but when you are a council member, you plan your own plans and contact the poet as you carry out your own legislative activities. Among them, the position of chairman of the standing committee has to play a public role. So if I think about that, I don't have enough time, and the burden of that is quite rewarding but also burdensome. First, the issue of the Korean industrial economy in our executive branch has a longer time to report and listen to various issues to the chairman first. Another thing during my daily routine is that I understand the parliamentary activities of our standing committee members. In many ways, I was the only one who needed to understand such legislative activities. Anyway, as the chairman of the committee, I have to communicate various relationships with the city and industrial economic policies, and there are various adjustments in the middle, so when I do it alone, I don't have enough time.

◆Park Gwi-bin: You're not good enough, but it's good to have more work and more roles, and didn't you move the office?

◇Kim Yu-gon: Doesn't the office seem a little bigger?

◆Park Gui-bin: That's right. I think you said that those things are good now. Anyway, you're here as the chairman of the Incheon City Council's Industrial Economy Committee. Since you're in charge of Incheon's industry and economy, it's going to be a very difficult field, and as you said earlier, it's going to be a very heavy one. What do you usually do?

◇ Kim Yu-gon: Our Incheon industrial economy policy will be established and implemented by the executive department. However, I don't think the function of Congress is to check and monitor it, but I can't do everything necessary for the citizens' economic and industrial life of Congress with just monitoring checks. So we always have to come up with alternatives and do this. After that, we have to encourage it, and there are many difficulties for industrial economy development. When implementing policies, we should encourage and urge them not to give up or do so. In fact, I think our industrial economicism affects our daily lives more than 70%. Because except for the transportation infrastructure problem and the general education problem, except for cultural welfare, our industrial economy is almost inseparable from our civic life. As a result of eating, sleeping, and working, 70 percent of Incheon's citizens' lives are participated by standing committees in our industrial economy. I think you can look at it like this.

◆Park Gui-bin: There are a lot of areas you are in charge of. It is almost 70 percent. What are the main issues you're looking at these days?

◇Kim Yu-gon: There are quite a few pending issues right now. Among the pending issues, in 2026, landfills in the Seoul metropolitan area will be banned from direct landfills. So, we have reached a situation where we have to operate a resource circulation center for each occurrence site, and if Incheon City is prohibited from landfilling directly now, the resource circulation center has to incinerate the amount of landfilling right now, so if we don't take measures now, the cost of this processing will be very high.

◆Park Gui-bin: And there could be a garbage crisis.

◇Kim Yu-gon: That's right. So, there is something that the private sector is in charge of right now, and if the private sector is in charge of it, the cost is also up to our citizens. And secondly, there are 15 underground roads in Incheon that exist as our urban planning facilities. But there are about 35 stores there. This part needs to be activated very quickly. Then there are 51 traditional markets, and these two commercial facilities I'm talking about now are the measures of the lives of ordinary people. Because the common people live a busy life, they can't find the conditions to go shopping at department stores, so we need to go to the market quickly in our daily lives and buy what we need. So we need to do that so that these things can become more active and our civic life can be revitalized. Next, Incheon used to be an industrial city. Since it is an industrial city, it was a city where we made and supplied industrial products throughout the metropolitan area. But the root industry is quite difficult right now. There has been no improvement in the environment. So, there's a small manufacturer. There are less than 10 people. These are things that are made from some kind of fingertips. In our industry, even if we build a spacecraft, we can't use it if one screw goes wrong. So doing those things is now the root industry, and there are 22,000 companies there, and about 75,000 people are close to artisans. They are working now, and they need to do something that can foster the root industry and continue to develop the ecosystem well, so the biggest problem is that the environment is very bad. So, I should make a strong recommendation to the executive team to directly upgrade and upgrade them. That's what I'm thinking.

◆Park Gui-bin: As the chairman of the Industrial Economy Committee, you have told me that you have a lot of issues, but since you have a lot of work to do, I felt a lot of courage when you came in before me. Now that I know the reason, what I want to ask you now is that you have to look at the overall contents of the Industrial Economy Committee like this to take care of your district in Incheon. That's right. But there must be a lot of pending issues in the district, so what else are you thinking about in the district?

◇Kim Yu-gon: Incheon is very old-fashioned right now, except for our economic zone class. So the environment is changing dramatically and the population is increasing. My district is also divided into the original city center and the old city center. Now there is Luwon City on this side of Gajeong 12 dong, but our Gajeong-dong has been developed and the population is increasing a lot now, and then 2 dong, 3 dong, Shinhyeonwonchang-dong, the old downtown area. But the old downtown area lacks infrastructure anyway. When it comes to living infrastructure, culture, sports, and welfare, the issue of the route to our senior citizen center is followed by the old city center, but the children are growing up there now. The infrastructure for children's education and the housing problem are very bad. Next, the new city has its own problems. Suddenly, more people flow in than planned, so traffic congestion problems and education infrastructure problems must be solved, and there are many things to do to gradually promote the convenience of our lives. However, my district says that it is desolate if it is a city where humans live, but it has a very human appearance. The constituency is still a place where we can exchange a glass of makgeolli and talk about my difficulties.

◆Park Gui-bin: Yes, I have a question that I always ask the members of the Incheon City Council. What will our chairman answer? I want to be a OOO politician. OOO How can you fill it up?

◇Kim Yu-gon: I want to be a warm politician. I think we were British politicians in the early 90s. There's a politician named Herbert Fischer. There is a famous story that he said, and it touches my heart. Because politicians must have the skills to make humans happy. I wonder if this is the answer. And I want to be a politician who can give me that feeling of happiness. Another thing is that it can give you that feeling of happiness starts from there when it gives you that feeling of trust. That's what I think.

◆Park Gwibin: I see. I was with warm politician Kim Yoo-gon, chairman of the Industrial Economy Committee. Thank you.

◇Kim Yu-gon: Thank you.