Chong Won-o, the Democratic Party of Korea's candidate for Seoul mayor, and Woo Sang-ho, the candidate for Gangwon governor, presented a plan for mutual cooperation between Seoul and Gangwon.
The two candidates met in front of the fountain at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul, on the afternoon of the 6th to announce a "Seoul-Gangwon mutual cooperation joint declaration," and said they plan to allow Seoul residents to use dedicated vacation facilities in Gangwon going forward.
Candidate Chong said, "Gangwon is the place Seoul residents most want to travel to, and it can be reached in one or two hours, so we chose it first as a cooperation partner," and stated accordingly the background of the agreement. Candidate Woo explained, "Until now, local autonomy has been preoccupied with each local government's own agenda, and there has been a lack of cooperative governance."
Regarding the policy agreement reached today, Candidate Woo said, "From now on, Seoul residents will go to Seoul-residents-only vacation facilities in Gangwon, and they will receive direct purchases of agricultural, livestock, and fisheries products produced in Gangwon," adding, "This will be a win-win."
The policy agreement the two candidates concluded that day includes a total of five joint declarations. They are: cooperation to jointly create national leisure campgrounds and forest recreation facilities to support leisure for Seoul residents; building remote work infrastructure and shared offices at major hubs in Gangwon to facilitate stays by Seoul resident workers; matching a self-sustaining, mixed-use retirement city in Gangwon with Seoul's retirement demand to ease the housing shortage in the capital area and attract population to the provinces; expanding direct-trade markets for high-quality agricultural specialties from Gangwon in Seoul's public meal services; and expanding transportation networks to strengthen accessibility between the two regions and increasing the number of participants in the Goyang Love Donation program.