Establishment of Gwangju Tourism Foundation... Nam Seongsuk Appointed as Inaugural CEO
Inauguration Ceremony on the 30th... CEO Begins Work with 1 Office, 3 Teams, and 25 Members System
[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 24th that it held the inaugural board meeting of the Gwangju Tourism Foundation and appointed Nam Seong-suk, former CEO of Gwangju Maeil Newspaper, as the first CEO.
The foundation's board of directors consists of 15 members in total, including Lee Yong-seop, Mayor of Gwangju Metropolitan City (ex officio chairman), Kim Jun-young, Director of the City’s Culture, Tourism and Sports Office, Park Tae-young, Director of the National Asia Culture Center, Lee Sang-tae, Head of the Korea Tourism Organization Gwangju-Jeonnam Branch, Jeong Jong-tae, President of the Kim Dae-jung Convention Center, the CEO of the Gwangju Tourism Foundation, and nine non-executive directors.
At the inaugural board meeting, CEO Nam Seong-suk was recommended as the top candidate by the executive recommendation committee, considering her public service experience as a former head of the Women and Family Policy Office of Gwangju City and her leadership in managing media companies.
The Gwangju Tourism Foundation was established following the enactment of the Gwangju City Tourism Foundation Establishment and Operation Ordinance in March. After holding the inaugural founders' meeting last month, it will officially launch on the 30th with a ceremony at the former Gwangju Tourism Convention Bureau office and begin full-scale operations.
The working organization consists of one management planning office and three teams?Tourism Promotion Team, Tourism Marketing Team, and Tourism Content Team?with 25 members (excluding two city-dispatched public officials). It will play a pivotal role in strengthening Gwangju’s tourism competitiveness and innovation by establishing the status of an international tourism city, enhancing tourism industry competitiveness, building a sustainable tourism industry ecosystem, fostering the MICE industry, and practicing responsible management for tourism innovation.
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Mayor Lee Yong-seop said, “The Gwangju Tourism Foundation has a crucial role as a comprehensive control tower to swiftly respond to the changing tourism paradigm in the post-COVID era by establishing integrated marketing strategies for ‘Tourism Gwangju,’ promoting tourism, fostering the tourism industry, and supporting workforce development. I hope that newly appointed CEO Nam Seong-suk and the staff will unite with one heart and mind to transform Gwangju’s uniqueness and distinctiveness into tourism resources, develop them into products, brands, and industries, and further elevate Gwangju’s status as an international tourism city attracting global attention.”
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