[Tongyeong News] Tongyeong City Announces 2022 Public Life Regulation Innovation Project Contest... Dipirang and Korea Tourism Organization Selected as '2022 Inbound Safe Tourism Destinations'

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Jucheol In] Tongyeong City, Gyeongnam Province, is conducting a public contest for innovative tasks to reform regulations affecting daily life in collaboration with the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and Gyeongsangnam-do.

The areas for regulation discovery include all regulations surrounding our lives such as alleviating restrictions on corporate management activities, improving daily inconveniences for residents, and rationalizing regulations in eco-friendly and new industry sectors. Any Tongyeong citizen can participate without any limit on the number of submissions.

The city will select outstanding proposals separately after the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and Gyeongsangnam-do conduct judging and awarding. The top prize winner will receive 300,000 KRW, two excellence awardees will receive 200,000 KRW each, and three encouragement awardees will receive 100,000 KRW each, along with the mayor’s award.

Participation is possible by accessing the relevant bulletin board through the public contest banner for innovative regulation reform on the Tongyeong City website. Submissions can be made directly via the form on the bulletin board or sent by email or regular mail.

◆ Special Measures for Forest Fire Prevention

Tongyeong City, Gyeongnam Province, is implementing special measures at the ‘Severe’ level of the forest fire alert.

In the Tongyeong area, the cumulative rainfall from December last year to the 15th of this month was only 4 mm, which is 3.3% of the 122 mm recorded during the same period last year.

Accordingly, the city judged the risk of forest fires to be high and decided to take measures at the ‘Severe’ level, which is higher than the national forest fire alert level issued by the Korea Forest Service.

The forest fire alert levels issued by the Korea Forest Service are divided into four stages: Interest, Caution, Warning, and Severe.

The city will strengthen the operation of the forest fire prevention task force and enhance initial response capabilities by operating firefighting teams during dawn and nighttime. Additionally, forest fire watchers will be concentrated during vulnerable times, and the city plans to conduct job training for forest fire prevention personnel and non-face-to-face forest fire prevention campaigns.

◆ Tongyeong Dipirang Selected as a 2022 Inbound Safe Tourism Destination by the Korea Tourism Organization

Dipirang in Tongyeong, Gyeongnam Province, has been selected as a ‘2022 Inbound Safe Tourism Destination’ by the Korea Tourism Organization.

The Korea Tourism Organization selected Dpyrang in Tongyeong-si, Gyeongnam as one of the '2022 Inbound Safe Tourism Destinations.'

Inbound Safe Tourism Destinations refer to tourist sites with a systematic domestic quarantine system and competitive tourism content. There are 125 such sites nationwide.

In Tongyeong, Dipirang, which surpassed 200,000 cumulative visitors within one year of opening, was selected. Dipirang is a tourist attraction located along the walking path in Nammangsan Sculpture Park overlooking the beautiful scenery of Tongyeong Harbor, featuring light and media facade installations section by section, giving the feeling of an outdoor art museum.

The selected tourist sites will receive support such as continuous quarantine management expert monitoring, tourism product support, and promotion through overseas networks, and will be introduced as inbound safe tourism destinations on the Korea Tourism Organization website.

A Tongyeong City official said, “We will do our best to operate under the specialized quarantine management for tourist sites proposed by the Korea Tourism Organization so that domestic and international tourists can travel with greater peace of mind.”

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