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Yang Yu-mi, head of the Public Relations and Festival Office of Gimje City, self-evaluated, "Although it is a small helping hand, I hope it was a practical help to the farmhouse that was struggling with labor shortages. We will continue to pay attention so that we can be of help to farmhouses in need of labor in the future." This is a stance regarding the extensive press release that employees of the Public Relations and Festival Office of Gimje City visited a farmhouse in Geumgu-myeon to lend a hand in bedding work for lettuce cultivation to mark the earnest farming season. However, harsh criticism is pouring in that this is a typical 'showy desk administration' trying to patch up the deep structural ills of rural areas—aging, population decline, and rising labor costs—with a one-off public official mobilization event.
The pretext put forward by the city for this activity is grandiose. The purpose is to provide practical help to local farmhouses suffering from labor shortages amid the triple hardships faced by rural areas. However, looking at the reality of the administration, it is all about a few employees of the department going on a one-day business trip to help turn over and level the soil in styrofoam beds. The city extensively promoted that the farmhouse owner expressed gratitude, saying, "I felt relieved," but this is nothing more than a showy 'rural volunteer work splitting' of local governments repeated every farming season. In a crisis situation where numerous farmhouses give up their farming for the year due to a lack of workforce, focusing on emotional marketing such as 'sweating hard' by visiting a single specific farmhouse is a waste of administrative power and an optical illusion administration.
A bigger problem is that policy alternatives to solve the fundamental cause of the labor shortage are missing. Leaving structural infrastructure maintenance behind, such as stable supply management of foreign seasonal workers, effective expansion of rural manpower brokerage centers, or support for mechanized equipment, and driving public relations department employees to the field to produce performance for photo opportunities is the epitome of bureaucratic mannerism. Concerns that unfamiliar work might rather place a burden on the farmhouse, or that a vacuum might occur in their inherent administrative work, are thoroughly ignored.
In the end, Gimje City's current helping hand event is the product of a hollow, exhibitionary performance-oriented approach. What farmers driven to the brink by climate change and farm debt need is not temporary comfort visits by public officials, but substantial budget investment and institutional support that guarantee a sustainable farming environment. Gimje City must immediately stop the performance promotion that shows off with one-off volunteer activities, closely figure out the labor supply and demand status of all farmhouses within its jurisdiction, and concentrate on establishing long-term and effective workforce security measures.
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