"A miracle happened in Seoul". I asked why the birth rate was reversed.

YTN Radio (FM 94.5) [YTN News FM Wise Radio Life]
□ Broadcast Date: November 13, 2024 (Wednesday)
□ Host: Announcer Lee Hyun-woong
□ Castor: Kim Young-ok, Chairman of the Seoul Metropolitan Council for Health and Welfare,

* The text below may differ from the actual broadcast content, so please check the broadcast for more accurate information.
YTN Radio (FM 94.5) [YTN News FM Wise Radio Life]
□ Broadcast Date: November 13, 2024 (Wednesday)
□ Host: Announcer Lee Hyun-woong
□ Castor: Kim Young-ok, Chairman of the Seoul Metropolitan Council for Health and Welfare,

* The text below may differ from the actual broadcast content, so please check the broadcast for more accurate information.

◆ Announcer Lee Hyun-woong (hereinafter referred to as Lee Hyun-woong): Join the Seoul Metropolitan Council, a legislative body that represents the voices of 10 million Seoul citizens. Wise Special Citizen Life Today, we will be with Kim Young-ok, a Seoul Metropolitan Council member who is the chairman of the Seoul Metropolitan Council's Health and Welfare Committee. You came out to the studio yourself. How are you? Nice to meet you.

◇Kim Young-ok, Chairman of the Seoul Metropolitan Council on Health and Welfare (hereinafter referred to as Kim Young-ok): Yes, nice to meet you.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: Is this our first visit to the wise radio life?

◇Kim Young-ok: Yes, it's my first visit.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: Please say hello to our audience.

◇Kim Young-ok: Hello. Nice to meet you, listeners who are listening to your wise radio life. I'm Kim Young-ok, chairman of the Seoul Metropolitan Government Health and Welfare Committee. Nice to meet you.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: Yes, nice to meet you. It's the end of the year. How are you doing?

◇Kim Young-ok: It's a very busy time for us. I'm currently conducting an administrative audit. Soon it will be time to deal with the Seoul city budget, but as you know, the health and welfare budget accounts for 40.1% of the nearly 47 trillion budget of the city.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: That's quite a big part.

◇Kim Young-ok: It's the largest committee.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: You've been so busy, but have you had something to offend recently?

◇Kim Young-ok: I saw it this morning because someone reported it, and it's this morning. My Facebook was stolen. It's not just that SNS was stolen, but the account number is also displayed there.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: Whose account number is it?

◇Kim Young-ok: It's an account number I don't know. So not only me, but there are 100 and 11 lawmakers in Seoul right now. As usual, SNS accounts such as lawmakers are sometimes stolen. So if you are friends of my account who are listening to this broadcast, I really wanted to say that it is a stolen account number, so I would appreciate it if you could be careful not to be stolen.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: Usually, celebrities or businessmen are stolen, so it's called phishing. We've seen a lot of cases like that, but is that the same for our politicians?

◇Kim Young-ok: Yes, we've had it once or twice. So even though I keep reporting it, there are so many followers right now that I'm thinking about what to do or delete it. Now that my account is showing up, I'm thinking.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: We're also interested in it, so make sure to check if it's the official account of those who follow us. There's never been a case where you receive donations unofficially like this. I think it would be good to be careful. Now, let's go into full-fledged talks, but you are now the chairman of the Health and Welfare Committee in the second half of the year. He also served as a committee member in the first half of the year. How did you change your mind? Have you become more responsible?

◇Kim Young-ok: I think the responsibility is heavy. Our lawmakers have an administrative audit now, but every word can become a policy. That can be a guide. So I feel a great sense of responsibility. After joining the health and welfare service, I did the first half of the year, and what I've always done is that I'm doing it on the connection line. Moreover, with the big slogan of accompanying the weak in Seoul, the city is moving now, and we're looking closely at conflicting budgets and policies. I think it's a really necessary and guiding policy. So, I think the Seoul Metropolitan Government is also carefully looking at it and thinking about how to reach out to even one more person.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: You said you were accompanied by the weak, but you said you would look at the company with the weak well even after you were actually elected, right? What are the specific contents and opinions?

◇ Kim Young-ok: There are many kinds of companionship with the weak, but it is literally a companion with the weak. When we say welfare, welfare is inseparable from civic life. Isn't it that part? So, to give you an example in detail in that regard, we have a budget and policy for the homeless in Seoul this time. But this time, if you enter a space house in the welfare room, the space is too small because it was enacted by law in the past. To tell you one thing, we are planning another budget and policy to create a comfortable place for the homeless to come in and live again in the future. Next, those who can support themselves, those with disabilities, and children everywhere, so wherever welfare is needed, we will be accompanied by the weak.

◆Lee Hyun-woong: I think it's going to be quite cold again this winter. There are definitely a lot of people who are in danger if this happens. Please take a close look so that there are no blind spots. If I ask you a specific welfare policy. I heard that the safe income promoted by the Seoul Metropolitan Government has been changed to the name Stepping Stone Income, what is this about?

◇Kim Young-ok: Until now, we have been conducting a pilot project with safe income. A lot of people are unfamiliar with safe income. It's hard. I heard that you think like this, so I received a public offering from more than 10,000 people, and I thought that the income of the stepping stone would be good, so this name was changed to stepping stone. Then, it touches the stepping stone, right? And what the Seoul Metropolitan Government is promoting now is a real stepping stone if you look at the electronic display or picture of the stepping stone. So it's easy to understand, but this policy is... It's a really necessary policy, but I think it's a policy that the state should do in the future. To put it simply, if I give you one example, it's like this. There are people who are receiving basic supplies right now. For those in need, but those who are receiving this basic supply and demand have not been able to work even if they want to work. In the end, this is what it means to live with only that money because the money goes out for basic supply and demand.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: There are cases where you don't get it when you work.

◇Kim Young-ok: But not now. Since the basic recipients are also designed with a certain amount of inferiority, they are eventually trying to create a foundation for them to work while raising their self-esteem. So, in the current model, if we implement a policy that compensates for the necessary amount even if we receive basic supply and demand, wouldn't they enter a stable period? Then, it will be right if you look at it as a model where they can find work and do activities in the future.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: Well-being doesn't mean just spending money. After hearing what you just said, I thought once again that we have to design policies very carefully and carefully examine our minds. There is a main theme of our Seoul City Council corner. It's a citizen's report section, and you can tell our citizens with the heart of posting something to the listeners. Seoul Metropolitan Councilman Kim Young-ok's Citizen Report! What would be the first thing to report?

◇Kim Young-ok: The first one will be the same, and the second one will be the same. One of the things that I'm worried about around the world these days is the disappearance of the population, so I'm sure you're worried a lot.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: Korea is especially severe. It is especially severe in Seoul.

◇Kim Young-ok: But the Seoul Metropolitan Government has turned around. As a birth support project, we are carrying out various good projects such as supporting infertility expenses and various care allowances for grandparents. The second part of the birth support came out this time, and it includes work and compatibility, and everything about low-birthrate housing. As a result, the birth rate of Seoul has risen from 0.53% for five months to 0.66% now.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: But it went up quite a lot.

◇Kim Young-ok: So I saw it in an article, and I heard from young people why they thought it was posted, and it was good to see the Seoul Metropolitan Government's policy.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: You can feel it?

◇Kim Young-ok: You said that. I think it will be fully felt. After the birth of a child, children are cared for and these days, they raise children alone. So, looking at my spouse's vacation, I'm giving him a vacation, but there's something I have to take a vacation in a short time, so I suggested this time. Why don't you open a year so that you don't use it all within 3 months? I recommend it like this so that you can use it when you really need it. Another thing is to apply some work-label points to companies as well.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: What about a work-life point like that?

◇Kim Young-ok: It's given to work label companies. So, if we keep the point system well with companies, it can lead to policies and lead to vacations or other things. There's that in the birth support project 2, but this time, we're paying for the newlywed living.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: Marriage is hard from the beginning these days.

◇Kim Young-ok: So, not only the public wedding hall. I do that, too. Childcare products also create a half-price discount mall. I'll let you apply for it. And the other thing is that this time, it's over there, but it's the exciting Han River.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: I know. You know, right? We recruit 100 people and gather 50 people to make a couple.

◇Kim Young-ok: I made a proposal to the mayor myself.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: I heard the competition rate is huge.

◇Kim Young-ok: That's right. There are more than 2,000 people recruiting 100 couples this time, and one thing to brag about is that many young people are determined to get married like this. So I'd like to say thank you first.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: When I see events hosted by such local governments, there is always a saying that government officials are motivated to go out and fill the number of heads.

◇ Kim Young-ok: So, this time, there was really no public servant. The other is that the gender ratio is too good here. There were far more 9-to-1 men in other cities and provinces. In the meantime, it's 6 to 4 here. So I hope it goes well. Anyway, you have to get married to be born and the population can disappear.

◆Lee Hyun-woong: Is there a total birth rate you're aiming for with the second season of the birth support project?

◇ Kim Young-ok: There is no total fertility rate. Yes, it's a bit difficult to set a goal for this, so let's start working on all the policies. You know, right? Even the egg freeze.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: Can those who want to have a baby come out?

◇Kim Young-ok: Yes. So infertile couples also released the limit. So that you can do it without limit.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: Opinions are coming in, but are you not going to make a table for me? Please consider it again. There's something like this these days.

◇Kim Young-ok: And I also have a personal complaint.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: What is there?

◇ Kim Young-ok: Why do you put an age limit?

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: You're up to 39 years old, right?

◇Kim Young-ok: There were complaints about why people in their 40s won't let them go when they're 39 years old.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: If it had been a while, I would have argued here.

◇Kim Young-ok: Let's do this well this time. I'll supplement everything that appears there and think about expanding it a little more next time.

◆Lee Hyun-woong: There are a lot of things to see and post today, so first of all, you've spent a lot of time and what's the second citizen's report?

◇Kim Young-ok: Second, it is important to raise children well, but it is really important to raise our children well. It's hard to take care of it now, and you've had a hard time giving birth, but your goal is to raise your born children well. So if you look at it socially, there are a lot of people who are heartbroken these days.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: It's been reported a lot recently.

◇ Kim Young-ok: It's too hard. It's lonely, anyway, so it's not easy to live, but we opened the Seoul Children's Future Center in Seoul after our policy on health promotion so that we can take good care of our born children.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: The future opens wide.

◇Kim Young-ok: Yes, it's scheduled to be installed and operated now so that the future will be fully opened.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: What kind of place is it?

◇Kim Young-ok: This is an elementary school student's mental diagnosis and children's emotional aptitude tests. So, the goal is to systematically capture them so that children can grow up well and work as citizens together in society.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: I think some of our listeners want to hear about the pending issues in Gwangjin-gu because the lawmaker is coming out. What pending issues are you interested in?

◇Kim Young-ok: The current issue in Gwangjin-gu is... I think Gwangjin-gu is the second Gwangjin-gu right now. The reason is that if you look at the residential form, it's almost an old residential form. There are 4 detached houses or villas in my district, but there are many people who are trying to redevelop and reconstruct in my district, and the biggest interest there is Moatown.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: What do you collect?

◇Kim Young-ok: Moatown is a place where houses are collected and built.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: Please explain.

◇Kim Young-ok: Moatown is a policy project of Mayor Oh Se-hoon, and we have reduced the process in the middle. The other one is gathering together. Parking lots are really difficult in a house.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: That's right.

◇ Kim Young-ok: That's why we can build it together and share the parking space. Another thing is that if the people over there gather all at once, it can always have an effect and young people can flow in, and the distribution of the population can be better. So now, the first one was born in Gwangjin, and it is being built now.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: I see. I see. There's only 30 seconds left. I think I have to ask you the last question. This is a trade question from the Seoul City Council corner. It's a trademark question, but Kim Young-ok's legislative icon is ○○○.

◇Kim Young-ok: I'm a sneaker.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: What are the sneakers? You're going to run hard?

◇Kim Young-ok: That's true. In my life, I've never worn shoes like this, and I'm constantly wearing sneakers. I'm still wearing sneakers. Wherever you call me, or where you need me, I really jump and act, but this is the most important thing. Members are active, but citizens are the most important. So I have to listen to the citizens well, so I wear sneakers so that I can run anytime, and I can tell you that my icon is sneakers.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: How many pairs of sneakers were worn out during the election?

◇Kim Young-ok: Sneakers come out really well these days during election campaigns. It comes out well, but when I'm a city council member, my sneakers have holes. That's how hard I played. I will try to be a city council member who does my best to be around citizens at any time.

◆ Lee Hyun-woong: Okay. Thank you for the good words today. Please continue to work hard to wear out your sneakers. I was with Kim Young-ok, the chairman of the Seoul Metropolitan Council's Health and Welfare Committee. Thank you.

◇Kim Young-ok: Thank you. Thank you.