Ulsan City Receives Two Awards Including the Minister of the Interior and Safety Award

Ulsan City Hall. [Photo by Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters, trainee reporter Hwang Du-yeol] Ulsan City received the Minister of the Interior and Safety Award and the Chairman of the Korea Communications Commission Award.

Ulsan City submitted the ‘Sangbuk-myeon Village Planning Group of Ulju-gun’ in the field of on-site activities and the ‘Nongso 1-dong Residents' Autonomy Committee of Buk-gu’ in the field of media activities to the ‘2021 Local Community Activity Best Practices Contest’ hosted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, and both were selected as excellent cases.

The ‘Local Community Activity Best Practices Contest’ is a system that selects, shares, and disseminates cases that have contributed to solving local issues and revitalizing communities through local community activities.

The Ministry of the Interior and Safety evaluated sustainability, originality, public interest, and potential for dissemination, selecting a total of 11 communities nationwide, including 8 in the on-site activities category and 3 in the media activities category.

Ulsan City applied with three cases, and in the on-site activities category, ‘Modu Da Kkot (All Are Flowers)’ by the Sangbuk-myeon Village Planning Group of Ulju-gun received the Minister of the Interior and Safety Award, while in the media activities category, ‘Hogye Village Together Village Broadcasting’ by Nongso 1-dong of Buk-gu received the Chairman of the Korea Communications Commission Award.

The awarded ‘Modu Da Kkot’ is a case where residents actively addressed issues such as litter left by visitors and parking difficulties to revitalize mountain tourism.

Key activities include holding a 100-person roundtable discussion among Sangbuk residents to identify urgent village issues and find solutions, thereby establishing a foundation for residents' autonomy.

The autonomy committee created a 60,000-pyeong canola flower field on an unsold lot in the Gilcheon Industrial Complex to solve the problem of illegal dumping and opened the ‘Yeongnam Alps Supermarket’ direct transaction market to promote the village and contribute to increasing residents' income.

The awarded ‘Hogye Village Together Village Broadcasting’ uses a warehouse next to the residents' autonomy committee office as a media broadcasting production room, playing a communication role by delivering various village news and residents' stories.

An official from Ulsan City said, “We will strive to widely disseminate our city’s local community activity cases.”

The excellent cases selected this year will be shared and disseminated at the local community discussion meeting held online in December.

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