Gwangju Dong-gu, Namgwangju Market Receives Excellent Grade as a Cultural Tourism Market

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Dong-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City (Mayor Im Taek) announced on the 21st that Namgwangju Market, Gwangju's representative seafood market, received an excellent grade of A in the cultural tourism market development project evaluation.

Since last year, a total of 920 million KRW has been invested over two years to carry out 16 programs under the Namgwangju Market Cultural Tourism Market Development Project, and with this excellent grade evaluation, an additional 20 million KRW in project funds will be supported.

This evaluation gave high marks due to active market revitalization projects such as the ‘Su(Sanmul)Guk(Bap) Manbal Project,’ which capitalized on the specialization of seafood and gukbap, the representative products of Namgwangju Market, including gukbap storytelling, hygiene and safety capacity building, and the autumn seafood festival.

In particular, the specialized street creation project improved the design environment by organizing indiscriminate protruding signs according to the characteristics of each passage, such as the seafood street, gukbap street, and young merchants street.

Also, by installing 145 pest control devices for the first time nationwide, the market was transformed into a clean and hygienic place.

This year, the Namgwangju Customer Support Center, completed last year, and Hakdong Sarangchae, located in the old railway quarters, will be developed into community cultural spaces to operate complex cultural lectures and market tour programs where customers, local residents, and tourists can participate together.

Im Taek, Mayor of Dong-gu, said, “This selection is a valuable result achieved through the cooperation of the Namgwangju Merchants Association and the Namgwangju Cultural Tourism Market Project Group,” and added, “Please make further efforts so that Namgwangju Market can establish itself as a cultural tourism market representing Gwangju based on this evaluation.”

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