Haenam-gun, Youth Nurim Culture Center, Youth Cultural Space 'Exploding in Popularity'

Haenam-gun Youth Nurim Culture Center Exterior / ? Asia Economy

[Haenam＝Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Hyun] The Jeonnam Haenam-gun Youth Nurim Culture Center is establishing itself as a hub for youth cultural and leisure activities.

According to the county on the 27th, the Youth Nurim Culture Center has been used by over 2,300 people within a month of its opening, playing a significant role in securing cultural spaces in rural fishing and farming areas at the county level where youth facilities are lacking.

The Youth Nurim Culture Center is a newly constructed building in Haeri, Haenam-eup, with the first floor operating as Haenam Cinema and the second and third floors functioning as a complex cultural center for youth.

There are a total of nine spaces including various program rooms and classrooms, and most of the facilities are free for youth aged 9 to 24.

In particular, the dance practice room equipped with a spacious area, mirrors, and sound equipment, the group practice room with various musical instruments, karaoke devices, and recording facilities, and the book caf? housing about 800 comic books and 1,000 general books are considered the most popular spaces among youth.

The county has opened nine regular courses focusing on lectures that were difficult to experience within schools and operates them for free. Starting in August, to strengthen weekend content which has the highest number of users, four additional one-day courses will be opened so that more users, including youth from distant rural areas, can benefit.

The autumn regular courses starting in September are planned to expand to 16.

Haenam-gun, as a key project of the 7th local government administration, has promoted the construction of a small cinema and a youth complex cultural center to resolve the lack of family-oriented cultural spaces in rural fishing and farming areas and support creative leisure activities for youth, and opened them in July.

In particular, with the operation of the youth complex cultural center where youth can enjoy various cultural experience activities in the latest facilities, it is expected to resolve the lack of infrastructure for rural youth and also have a positive effect on improving the local educational environment.

Additionally, by linking the small cinema and youth center in construction, the efficiency of project implementation has been increased, attracting a diverse floating population and playing a significant role in revitalizing the stagnant original downtown economy.

County Governor Myeong Hyun-gwan stated, “With the establishment of the youth complex cultural center, youth who previously lacked places to play and enjoy are now given opportunities to enjoy high-quality cultural benefits,” and added, “We will continue to invest in facilities and provide policy support so that it firmly establishes itself as a cradle for strengthening the cultural and artistic sensibility of local youth and developing the creativity necessary for future talents.”

Haenam=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Hyun kh0424@asiae.co.kr

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