Wando-gun Pledges Successful Hosting of Jeonnam Sports Festival and Disabled Sports Festival

First Ever Event, Official Promotional Video Released

County Governor Shin Woo-cheol: "We Will Make It an Economic Sports Festival and a Cultural and Tourism Sports Festival"

Wando-gun, Jeollanam-do held the ‘D-50 Days Commemoration and Joint Pledge Ceremony for the Successful Hosting of the 62nd Jeollanam-do Sports Festival and the 31st Jeollanam-do Disabled Sports Festival’ at the Wando-gun Living Culture Center on the 23rd, wishing for the successful hosting of both sports festivals.

According to the county on the 24th, about 200 people attended the event, including Shin Woo-cheol, Wando-gun Governor, Heo Gung-hee, Chairman of the Wando-gun Council, county council members, Shin Ui-jun, provincial council member, Song Jin-ho, President of the Jeollanam-do Sports Council, Park Jeong-hyun, Executive Vice President of the Jeollanam-do Disabled Sports Council, organizing committee members, and sports council executives.

Wando County held a pledge meeting for the successful hosting of the Jeonnam Sports Festival and the Disabled Sports Festival.
[Photo by Wando County]

The event proceeded with a pre-ceremony performance, a report on the preparations for the sports festivals, greetings from key guests, reading of the pledge, and a performance, and the official promotional video of the festivals was unveiled for the first time.

During the performance, when the key guests pressed their handprints on the LED screen, the goals of the two sports festivals?‘Successful and Participatory Festival,’ ‘Safe and Economic Festival,’ ‘Cultural and Tourism Festival,’ and ‘Harmony and Hope Festival’?were displayed on the screen. They shouted the core goals of the festivals together with a towel performance, pledging to successfully host the events.

Additionally, the organizing committee members and festival officials reaffirmed their determination to “actively cooperate in the preparations with a sense of mission to successfully host both sports festivals” through the reading of the pledge.

Shin Woo-cheol, Chairman of the Organizing Committee, said, “We will devote all our efforts to the remaining preparations to make the two sports festivals a festival of harmony and hope, a safe and economically beneficial festival for the local economy, and a cultural and tourism festival.”

Starting from the D-50 day event, the county plans to actively promote the festivals by launching the official websites, distributing promotional videos, and installing promotional banners and flags on major overpasses and roadsides.

Furthermore, to ensure smooth operation of the festivals, renovations of venues for each event, purchase and rental of sports equipment, and recruitment of volunteers will be completed by April.

Meanwhile, the 62nd Jeollanam-do Sports Festival will be held under the slogan ‘Jeonnam Sports Festival United in the Clean Sea of Wando’ from May 12 to May 15 for four days with 24 events, and the 31st Jeollanam-do Disabled Sports Festival will be held under the slogan ‘Let’s Run Together as One on the Healthy Island of Wando’ from May 24 to May 26 for three days with 21 events throughout Wando-gun.

It is expected that about 35,000 athletes, officials, and spectators will visit Wando-gun during the festivals.

Wando = Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Kyung-pil ckp6737@asiae.co.kr

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