Korea Beautiful Islands Development Council Supports Successful Hosting of 2021 Wando International Seaweed Expo

Wando County adopted a declaration of support for the successful hosting of the "2021 Wando International Seaweed Expo" at a meeting attended by the heads of 10 city and county local governments from the Beautiful Islands Development Council of Korea and the elected members of the 21st National Assembly. (Photo by Wando County)

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Kyung-pil] Wando-gun, Jeollanam-do announced on the 26th that at a meeting held on the 25th at the Kensington Hotel in Yeouido, Seoul, attended by the heads of 10 city and county local governments of the Beautiful Islands Development Council of Korea (hereinafter referred to as the Council) and the elected members of the 21st National Assembly, a declaration of support for the successful hosting of the ‘2021 Wando International Seaweed Expo’ was adopted.

The 2021 Wando International Seaweed Expo will be held for 24 days from April 23 to May 16, 2021, under the theme “Healing Sea, Seaweed Opening a Future of Hope.”

The third international seaweed expo held in Wando will present the future vision of the seaweed industry by converging and integrating various industries such as bio, pharmaceuticals, beauty, energy, and the 4th industry based on seaweed as the material, and will be held as an industrial expo to enable Wando-produced seaweed to secure overseas markets.

Accordingly, Shin Woo-cheol, the mayor of Wando-gun, explained the expo and requested active cooperation from the council’s city and county members.

The meeting of the Beautiful Islands Development Council of Korea held that day was attended by the elected members of the 21st National Assembly from local constituencies to discuss improvements to difficulties closely related to transportation and daily life in island areas and to propose local issues.

Mayor Shin Woo-cheol of Wando-gun proposed the revision of the Island Comprehensive Development Promotion Act to improve the unfairness where island areas connected to the mainland by land-sea bridges for 10 years after opening are excluded from support such as outdated fishing port facilities, in order to promote balanced regional development.

Moreover, discussions were held on common difficulties and local issues in island areas, including improvement of coastal passenger ship departure control standards and expansion of fare support, reduction of electricity charges for small cold storage facilities for seafood, and legal amendments to improve the area of reclaimed shared waters for facilities such as waiting rooms.

Meanwhile, the Beautiful Islands Development Council of Korea was established on March 15, 2012, to promote solidarity and mutual cooperation among 10 representative island local governments of Korea.

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