2025 Opening of Seongnam Education Museum Education Building 'Name' Preference Survey

[Asia Economy (Seongnam) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Seongnam City in Gyeonggi Province announced that it will create a pop-up museum in the 'Education Building' of the Seongnam History Museum, which is being constructed on the site of the former Seongnam No.1 Industrial Complex. The building will have one underground floor and four above-ground floors. The term "pop-up museum" is a neologism combining "pop-up," meaning "a newly created window that provides various information," and "museum."

Seongnam City stated on the 9th that from the 12th to the 23rd of this month, it will conduct an online preference survey for the name of the museum's Education Building through the Happiness Communication Petition Discussion Plaza on the Seongnam City website (www.seongnam.go.kr).

Based on keywords derived from the citizen public forums and citizen working groups previously operated for the museum's construction, cultural planners prepared four name proposals: ▲Option 1 "Al (EGG)" ▲Option 2 "293 Gongjakso (共作所)" ▲Option 3 "Eop (UP)" ▲Option 4 "JjeomTIXT (.TXT)".

The city explained that all these names reflect the locational symbolism of the Seongnam No.1 Industrial Complex, the museum site, and embody citizens' demands for an interesting and new space.

Among those who participate in the voting, 1,000 people will be selected by lottery to receive a Korean Pilot fountain pen ballpoint pen (produced in the 1990s) that was manufactured in a factory located in the Seongnam No.1 Industrial Complex.

To this end, the city secured 1 billion KRW from the Gyeonggi Province Special Adjustment Grant and 700 million KRW from the Ministry of the Interior and Safety's Special Subsidy.

The city's pop-up museum will be unveiled to citizens next month after interior and experiential exhibition construction. When the museum's exhibition building is completed in the first half of 2025, it will officially open as the Seongnam History Museum.

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