Jeonju City Library Policy Wins 'Best Award' at Manifesto Competition

Won the Grand Prize in the Regional Culture Revitalization Category at the Manifesto Excellence Competition

[Jeonju=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Han-ho] Jeonju City's library policy has been recognized as the best policy nationwide.

Jeonju City announced on the 10th that it won the grand prize in the regional culture revitalization category for its library city policy at the '2021 National Basic Local Government Heads Manifesto Best Practice Competition' hosted by the Korea Manifesto Practice Headquarters.

This competition is held annually to discover and spread excellent policy cases from 159 basic local governments nationwide and to establish a model of local democracy that residents can experience, and this year it was held online.

Jeonju City is promoting its library policy under the theme "Jeonju, a library city where books become life beyond nourishment for the mind."

Jeonju City has been highly evaluated for creating specialized libraries such as poetry libraries, traveler libraries, and art specialty libraries throughout the city, and for transforming the rigid existing libraries into open creative libraries where children can play with books and freely cultivate their imagination.

In particular, Jeonju City is promoting various projects centered on five directions: △ libraries focused on life △ citizens who write and create books △ reading culture enjoyed by all △ a book travel city people want to visit △ and book streets.

These policies of Jeonju City have led to achievements last year such as △ the Presidential Award at the 15th Korea Space Culture Awards 2020 by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Ujuro 1216) △ the Prime Minister's Award at the 2020 Life SOC Idea, Best Practice, and Promotional Video Contest by the Office for Government Policy Coordination (Ujuro 1216) △ designation as an excellent institution for book delivery services for the disabled by the National Library for the Disabled (Songcheon Library) △ and recognition as an excellent institution for the 'Humanities on the Road' program by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Seosin Library).

Meanwhile, Jeonju City received the Excellence Award in the climate and environment category at last year's 'National Basic Local Government Heads Manifesto Best Practice Competition' for its policy "Jeonju, a garden culture city where gardens become life, culture, and foster industry."

Jeonju=Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Han-ho stonepeak@asiae.co.kr

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