Yoo Geun-gi, Gokseong County Governor, Receives Excellence Award at Governance Local Politics Awards

Leading Community Transformation Through Educational Projects, Excellent Evaluation in Community Capacity Building Sector

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Chunsu] On the 25th, it was announced that Yugeun-gi, the governor of Gokseong-gun, Jeollanam-do, received the Excellence Award in the Community Capacity Building category at the ‘2020 Governance Local Politics Awards’ held at the National Assembly Library Auditorium on the 24th.

The Governance Politics Awards are hosted by the Governance Center with the support of the Autonomy and Decentralization Committee to promote proper autonomous decentralization activities based on governance of participation and partnership.

In its second year, this year’s theme was ‘The Future of the Region, The Future of Korea, The Future of Democracy,’ and applications were accepted in five categories (expansion of resident convenience, enhancement of administrative efficiency, community capacity building, strengthening of autonomy and decentralization, and pioneering the future).

As a result, 145 applications were submitted nationwide, and after screening, the results were announced this time.

Governor Yugeun-gi was honored with the award for ‘Gokseong-style Radical Transformation! Establishment of Public-Private-Academic Educational Governance.’ Since the 7th elected term, Gokseong-gun has shown a broad approach to educational governance, including opening the Future Cooperation Center, the first collaboration between a local government and an education support office in Jeollanam-do.

Through this, a dense educational foundation connecting children to adults, individuals to communities, and further to the local society is being established. In this evaluation, it seems that the distinctive education such as forest education and village textbook production, which leads the overall change and growth of the local community, received high praise.

Governor Yugeun-gi emphasized education as a core policy to create conditions where local residents do not leave Gokseong due to their children’s education issues, but rather can return for rural study.

To further solidify the achievements of the past year, the Future Education Foundation, which upgraded the Future Education Cooperation Center, was recently registered. The foundation will expand and deepen the governance system by linking various local resources with school curricula. It will also serve as a scholarship foundation where individuals, organizations, and companies can freely donate scholarships.

Governor Yugeun-gi expressed his thoughts, saying, “Through education that grows together with the local community, we will make Gokseong-gun the happiest place to live that everyone wants to live in.”

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