정부, 강원산불 지원대책 발표... 임시 조립주택 무료 제공<br /><br />The government laid out plans to provide support for residents in Gangwon-do Province who were affected by a wildfire that broke out last week.<br />The plans include housing support and financial aid.<br />Kan Hyeong-woo has the details. <br /> The South Korean government will provide a number of support measures for those affected by the Gangwon wildfire, focusing its efforts on rehousing the twelve-hundred displaced victims. <br /> "The government will set up temporary houses for those who have been displaced at no cost to give them a place to stay... before the plan for damage relief is finalized." <br /> Along with opening up one hundred and seventy-eight rental houses,...the government will install twenty temporary houses in the affected region before the end of the week. <br />Victims can live in the government provided accommodation for up to two years, but if they wish to go back to their homes,... they will be provided with a housing stabilization fund worth eleven-thousand U.S. dollars, along with a fifty-two-thousand dollar loan with a low interest rate. <br /> The government also plans to provide about three-thousand pieces of farm equipment,... which farmers will be able to rent for free. They'll also be able to have their damaged equipment repaired, cost-free. <br /> In addition,... the government says farmers, fishermen, small and medium-sized firms and agricultural, forestry and fisheries organizations affected by the wildfire will have their deadlines extended for repaying existing loans and paying taxes.<br /> The wildfire that broke out on the east coast of the country last Thursday burned almost eighteen million square meters of land - about twenty-five-hundred times the size of a soccer field - left two dead, one injured and over a thousand people without homes. <br />Kan Hyeong-woo, Arirang News
