President Yoon said, "Local government...Support for strengthening regional competitiveness"

President Yoon Suk Yeol said he will make every effort to strengthen regional competitiveness and to develop each region by taking advantage of its characteristics.President Yoon

said at a Cabinet meeting that today is the "Day of Local Autonomy and Balanced Development," and that the Yoon administration is the "Local Era Government."

He added that each local government will use its comparative advantage to create its own development strategy, and the central government will be a strong supporter of the success of local governments.President Yun

said that the power of autonomy can function properly only when the center of gravity of authority and responsibility is more boldly shifted to local governments, and asked them to consider how to build a system responsible for it while giving more authority.

At the same time, the Local Era Committee was launched last year to lead the decentralization and balanced development policy, and it introduced four special zones in the local era and is working to improve settlement conditions.