Seongbuk-gu Regional Culture Revitalization Manifesto Contest Grand Prize Winner

Award for 'A Platform for Cooperation and Symbiosis to Realize Cultural Democracy, Seongbuk Cultural Foundation' in Regional Culture Revitalization... 5 Consecutive Years of Excellence Award

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] Seongbuk-gu (Mayor Lee Seung-ro) announced on the 10th that Seongbuk-gu won the Grand Prize in the Regional Culture Revitalization category at the ‘2020 National Basic Local Government Heads Manifesto Best Practice Competition’ hosted by the Korea Manifesto Practice Headquarters.

The Korea Manifesto Practice Headquarters is an organization that periodically evaluates and discloses the fulfillment of promises made by heads of basic local governments, holding an annual competition to select creative and effective best practices in promises.

In this competition, 353 cases were submitted from 144 basic local governments nationwide. After the first document screening, 172 cases were selected for the second screening. Due to the spread of COVID-19, the second screening was conducted online, with evaluations based on presentation videos from each local government.

Seongbuk-gu received very high evaluations in the Regional Culture Revitalization category with the theme ‘Seongbuk Cultural Foundation, a Platform for Cooperation and Symbiosis to Realize Cultural Democracy.’ Under the vision of realizing resident-led cultural decentralization, it established a cooperative system for the local cultural ecosystem and created a sustainable cultural community embodying the value of coexistence through the activation of cultural and artistic social economy and support for youth cultural and artistic activities.

The Seongbuk Cultural Foundation, as a specialized cultural policy institution and a governance intermediary organization, connects the Seongbuk community with Seongbuk-gu, Seoul City, and the central government, laying the foundation for citizen-led cultural governance based on autonomy and decentralization. It was recognized as an excellent example of local cultural foundation operation for its continuous efforts to create Seongbuk-gu’s local cultural ecosystem.

Lee Seung-ro, Mayor of Seongbuk-gu, said, “I am pleased that the local cultural and artistic projects created through communication and participation by Seongbuk residents have received good evaluations from external organizations,” and added, “As the achievements of the second year of the 7th local government, we will review the promises once again and do our best to fulfill all of them.”

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