Korea Racing Authority Changwon Branch and Jungang-dong Shopping District Association Sign Business Agreement for Shopping District Revitalization

Kim Won-young, Branch Manager of Korea Racing Authority Changwon Branch (right), and Lee Sang-soo, President of Changwon City Jungang-dong Shopping District Association, are taking a commemorative photo after signing a business agreement.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Hwang Du-yeol] The Korea Racing Authority Changwon Branch and the Changwon Jungang-dong Shopping District Association signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at the Korea Racing Authority Changwon Branch on the 13th.

The agreement aims to ensure the successful hosting of the "Chef's Street Concert" in Jungang-dong, Changwon.

Now in its 19th year, the Jungang-dong concert is a united festival of 48 officetel shopping districts that seeks to restore the former glory of Jungang-dong's shopping area and reestablish it as the central shopping district of Changwon.

"Chef's Street" is a rebranding project planned by the Shopping District Association to revitalize the Jungang-dong shopping area, which lost vitality due to COVID-19, and was selected last May for the Ministry of the Interior and Safety's Alley Economic Recovery Support Contest.

Chef's Street has attracted attention as the "Changwon version of the Michelin Guide," introducing 90 specially selected restaurants out of about 300 to gourmets.

The Korea Racing Authority Changwon Branch has issued restaurant discount coupons worth approximately 8 million KRW since February this year to revitalize the Jungang-dong shopping district and has carried out a lunchbox delivery donation project worth 10 million KRW for vulnerable groups in cooperation with the Jungang-dong shopping district.

Additionally, it supports festival prizes for Chef's Street worth about 3 million KRW and winter fire prevention supplies worth about 2 million KRW.

Kim Won-young, head of the Korea Racing Authority Changwon Branch, said, "We have continuously made efforts to help the surrounding shopping districts that experienced difficulties due to COVID-19," adding, "We will spare no interest and support to ensure the success of this Chef's Street festival so that the Jungang-dong shopping district becomes the center of gastronomy in Changwon again."

Lee Sang-su, president of the Changwon Jungang-dong Shopping District Association, said, "The exceptional support from the Korea Racing Authority Changwon Branch has been a great help in revitalizing the Jungang-dong shopping district," and added, "We will do our best to make the Chef's Street festival a success."

The Chef's Street festival, which opens with a concert on the 18th, offers a variety of Asian foods at affordable prices.

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