Gwangju City Selects 'Best 5 of the Year'

1st Place is 'Blocking Overseas Inflow of COVID-19! Creating the K-Quarantine Model'

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 29th that it has selected the ‘Top 5 of the Year’ among the major policies promoted this year that achieved excellent results.

Gwangju selected 10 candidate projects through a two-step review process involving the Citizens’ Rights Committee and the collaborative coordination meeting, and then gathered public opinions through online surveys targeting citizens, public officials, city council members, and city reporters to finally select outstanding projects with high public empathy and awareness.

The project ranked first, ‘Blocking Overseas Inflow of COVID-19 at the Source! Creating the K-Quarantine Model,’ was highly evaluated for its proactive response system that enabled early detection of positive cases and led the prevention of local infections.

Along with this, the projects ranked 2nd ‘May 18 Symbol Jeonil Building 245, Reborn as a Citizen’s Historical and Cultural Space and Returned to the Citizens,’ 3rd ‘Kill COVID-19! Save the Gwangju Community! ‘Collaboration’ as the Masterstroke,’ 4th ‘May 18 Painful Memories! Reborn as a Democratic Human Rights Space!,’ and 5th ‘Establishment of a Gwangju-type Artificial Intelligence Business Ecosystem’ were selected.

Jung Ju-hyung, the city’s evaluation officer, said, “Projects related to COVID-19 policies and the May 18 Democratization Movement, which have great public interest and expectations, were selected as this year’s best projects. Building on this year’s achievements, we plan to devote all efforts next year to producing results in key core projects to overcome the COVID-19 disaster situation and revitalize the local economy.”

Meanwhile, the best departments of the year were jointly selected through written evaluations by the Citizens’ Rights Committee and internal assessments, recognizing the Artificial Intelligence Industry Bureau for its contribution to city development such as the establishment of the Gwangju-type Artificial Intelligence Business Ecosystem, the Welfare and Health Bureau for proactive COVID-19 testing and response, and the Environment and Ecology Bureau for laying the foundation for realizing a carbon-neutral city by 2045.

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