Muan-gun and Guri-si, Gyeonggi-do Establish Online Sister City Partnership

Expecting Exchanges Across Various Fields Including Economy, Culture, and Education

Muan County held an online non-face-to-face mutual cooperation sisterhood agreement ceremony with Guri City, Gyeonggi Province, to promote development and prosperity. ⓒ Asia Economy

[Muan＝Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Oh Hwan-joo] On the 16th, Muan-gun, Jeollanam-do announced that it held an online non-face-to-face mutual cooperation sisterhood agreement signing ceremony with Guri-si, Gyeonggi-do to promote development and prosperity.

The two cities exchanged letters of intent for sisterhood in March and April, and planned to hold the signing ceremony in Guri-si in July, but postponed the event due to COVID-19.

After postponing the event, they intended to hold the ceremony in December this year, but due to the recent surge in COVID-19 cases and the spread of the Omicron variant, the ceremony was held non-face-to-face at each city and county situation room.

On that day, Kim San, the mayor of Muan-gun, Kim Dae-hyun, chairman of the Muan-gun Council, Ahn Seung-nam, mayor of Guri-si, Kim Hyung-su, chairman of the Guri-si Council, and about 10 related officials including department heads met via online video conference to conduct the signing ceremony. The event proceeded in the order of participant introductions, commemorative speeches, congratulatory speeches, reading of the agreement, and signing of the agreement.

Guri-si, a historical and cultural city where the breath of the Joseon Dynasty lives, is located at a transportation hub in the center of Gyeonggi-do. Donggureung in Guri-si, registered as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site, is the largest royal tomb in Korea.

Guri-si has the largest Guri Agricultural and Marine Products Wholesale Market in northern Gyeonggi Province. In July, Guri City Hall and traditional markets purchased 885 bags of 10kg Muan onions, and in November, 110 bags of 8kg cabbage were purchased at Guri City Hall, helping to promote the consumption of Muan agricultural products.

Mayor Kim San said in his commemorative speech, “With this sisterhood agreement, synergy is expected through the combination of Muan’s excellent agricultural and marine products and Guri-si’s commercial distribution network,” and added, “I hope exchanges and cooperation will be carried out in various fields such as administration, economy, culture, arts, and education.”

Meanwhile, Muan-gun has sisterhood and friendship agreements with Uiryeong-gun (1998), Gunpo-si (1998), Gokseong-gun (2012), and Seongju-gun (2013), and actively conducts exchange activities with sister cities such as mutual visits to local festivals, operation of direct agricultural product markets, and discounts on public facility usage fees for residents of sister cities.

Muan＝Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Oh Hwan-joo ohj1358@asiae.co.kr

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