Promoting Win-Win Cooperation Between Ulleungdo-Jejudo and Haenyeo Cultural Industries

The governor of Ulleung County in South Korea is visiting Jeju Island and touring several facilities under the Jeju City Environmental Facilities Management Office.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kyungho Ahn] From the 23rd to the 25th, Nam Han-kwon, the governor of Ulleung County, visited Jeju City and met with Oh Young-hoon, the governor of Jeju Province.

The purpose of this visit was to listen to opinions on the haenyeo cultural industry, which is being developed as a core tourism and cultural industry in Jeju Province, and to tour waste disposal facilities and public sewage treatment facilities under the Jeju City Environmental Facility Management Office, in order to explore directions for environmental industries in preparation for the era of one million tourists to Ulleungdo.

In the case of Jeju Province, to accommodate the increasing number of tourists, systems for environmental protection such as landfills, leachate retention ponds, recycling sorting facilities, Styrofoam reduction facilities, large waste crushing facilities, food waste processing facilities, incineration plants, and sewage treatment facilities are in place.

In particular, the landfill gas power generation facility and the concealed oil-water separation system have moved beyond simple waste disposal functions to establish eco-friendly energy production facilities, securing competitiveness.

Accordingly, Ulleung County plans to benchmark Jeju’s environmental SOC industry and promote new projects.

Oh Young-hoon, governor of Jeju Province, proposed, “Although Jeju’s haenyeo culture has been registered as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, to further develop the haenyeo culture, a haenyeo cultural cooperation network must be established, starting with a network among Jeju Province, Gyeongbuk Province, and Ulleungdo, and then connecting to a global network.”

Nam Han-kwon, governor of Ulleung County, said, “We will well integrate what we saw and heard in Jeju into Ulleung County to reduce indiscriminate development and help it grow into a world-class tourism and cultural island full of charm.”

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