Shin Jeong-hoon, Naju·Hwasun Preliminary Candidate, to Hold Book Launch Event on the 11th

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Shin Jeong-hoon, the Democratic Party of Korea's preliminary candidate for Naju·Hwasun National Assembly, will hold a book launch event at 2 p.m. on the 11th at Naju Comprehensive Sports Park.

The book introduced at this launch event, titled "A Country Where There Is Hope Even in the Provinces," candidly chronicles the life journey of preliminary candidate Shin Jeong-hoon and clearly addresses the attack frames directed at him during every election season.

Candidate Shin was a key figure in the 1985 occupation protest at the U.S. Cultural Center, bringing the tragedy of Gwangju in 1980 to the world's attention, for which he was sentenced to three years in prison. After his release following the June Struggle in 1987, he returned to his hometown and devoted himself to civic activism, leading a farmer's movement that was unprecedented globally to abolish the use of pesticides.

Thereafter, not as part of the mainstream of Honam politics but as an independent, he worked alongside farmers and served as a provincial council member and mayor of Naju. Due to his connection with President Moon Jae-in, deepened by the late farmer leader Baek Nam-gi, he was also responsible for Honam during the last presidential election. This book is like a novel that vividly portrays the profound story of Shin Jeong-hoon's life.

The book launch event will feature a performance by the pansori pianist Im Dong-chang and a book talk with ordinary citizens.

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