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Performance scene at the Failure Expo held in October 2021.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Koo Dae-sun] Daegu City will hold the ‘2022 Failure Expo in Daegu’ for two days from the 21st to the 22nd at 2·28 Memorial Central Park and Muyeongdang in downtown Daegu to change the negative perception of failure and spread a culture of encouraging retrying.

Co-hosted by Daegu City and the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, this expo is organized under the slogan ‘Gathering Failures as Assets’ to empathize with various experiences of failure and cases of retrying, aiming to turn the experience of failure into a valuable asset that can serve as a foundation for retrying rather than despair.

Since its inception in 2019, the Daegu regional expo, the only one held nationwide for four consecutive times, has been led and promoted throughout the entire process, from event planning to program composition, by the private council ‘2022 Daegu Failure Expo Promotion Committee (Chairman Park Sang-woo).’

This year, to lay the groundwork for failure assetization, an integrated website has been launched to archive the performance data of expos held over the past three years in file form, with completion expected by the end of the year.

The main programs of the event held at 2·28 Memorial Central Park include the ‘Failure Empathy Talk Show,’ where speakers from various fields such as comedian Kim Won-hyo share their stories of failure and retrying; the ‘Citizen Open Mic,’ where citizens’ stories are heard live on site with the MC; and the ‘Failure National Singing Contest,’ which introduces stories of being comforted by songs during difficult and tiring times and allows participants to sing themselves.

In addition, the event is designed so that citizens can share and empathize with various types of failures, ranging from light, everyday life-related cases to those requiring policy proposals.

Also, at Muyeongdang, Daegu’s first nationalist capital department store during the Japanese colonial period, a ‘Youth Planning Exhibition’ composed of fresh ideas about failure by local young artists will be held. The exhibition, experience programs, and talks are prepared in a diverse manner to allow citizens to directly participate and reinterpret and experience failure anew.

The stage events held at 2·28 Memorial Central Park will also be broadcast live on the official YouTube channel ‘Failure Expo in Daegu’ to enable participation remotely.

Kwon Oh-sang, Director of Administration at Daegu City, said, “I hope this expo will be an event to share experiences of failure and retrying and to reflect on the meaning of challenge and overcoming again,” adding, “Daegu City will also strive harder to create an environment where failure experiences become the foundation for growth and retrying is possible.”

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