Cash Grants Offered to Singles Dating or Getting Married in Busan’s Saha-gu

Busan’s Saha-gu is preparing a meeting and support program to provide direct cash subsidies to local residents and workers in the district so they can start dating and getting married.

The Saha-gu district council adopted a revised supplementary budget to fund the meet-up day for local singles, a pilot project that will take place in October, according to local media on Wednesday.

The pilot will select eligible singles born between 1981 and 2001 who live or work in the district. Applicants will be evaluated by the district office after submitting documents and completing an interview.

For each match formed during the event, the district will offer 500,000 won ($360) to each member of the potential couple.

The local government will then provide more subsidies to the couple as they move through the successive stages of dating and marriage.

He will give each member of the couple 1 million won if they can reunite their families for marriage.

Then, if the couple gets married, Saha-gu will provide 20 million won in congratulatory money.

The district office will even offer newlyweds a 30 million won housing deposit or 800,000 won monthly rent for up to five years.

The total amount of funding provided to each couple who successfully marry through the program ranges from 53 million won to 71 million won.

The Southwest Busan District plans to expand the program to also include foreign nationals residing or working in the district starting next year, while holding a meeting once a month.

“This project is designed to overcome the demographic crisis amid South Korea’s low birth rate by forming a multicultural local community in the future,” Saha-gu district chief Lee Gap-jun said Wednesday. , to local media.