Gwangju Seo-gu Holds Business Agreement Ceremony for 'Yang Hak-seon Memorial Space Creation'

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Yoon Jamin] Seo-gu, Gwangju announced on the 10th that it held the ‘Yang Hak-seon Memorial Space Creation Business Agreement Ceremony.’

The agreement ceremony was attended by athlete Yang Hak-seon and representatives of the residents.

The memorial space creation project involves remodeling the birthplace of Yang, located in Balsan Village, Yang 3-dong, where he was born and raised, into an exhibition hall and revitalizing the surrounding alleys to promote regional development and urban regeneration of the old downtown area.

The ‘Yang Hak-seon Memorial Space Creation Project’ is part of the Ocheon Village Regeneration Project, a leading urban regeneration project supported by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

With an investment of about 300 million won, the project will remodel the birthplace of athlete Yang Hak-seon into an exhibition hall and improve the surrounding alleys, and after completion, it will be entrusted to a residents’ council for management.

At the agreement ceremony, Seo-gu, athlete Yang, and the residents’ council signed the agreement and agreed to actively cooperate in revitalizing the alleys using items containing the gymnastics story of athlete Yang Hak-seon to be displayed in the exhibition hall and his portrait rights.

A Seo-gu official said, “We consider it meaningful to join forces with Olympic gymnastics hero Yang Hak-seon for the development of the old downtown area,” and added, “We will actively promote the revitalization of Gwangju Seo-gu’s old downtown and sustainable urban regeneration projects in the future.”

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