Safety Experience Center Construction: Yeongju City Prepared for 5 Years... Application Submitted on the 1st

On the 1st, 100,000 Citizens' Wish 'Hosting Prayer Departure Ceremony and Delivery Ceremony'

United Citizens Walk, Bicycle, Marathon to the Provincial Office

More than Half of Yeongju Citizens Signed ... Delivery of 'Hosting Petition'

"The attraction of the Gyeongbuk Safety Experience Center is the heartfelt wish of 100,000 Yeongju citizens."

Yeongju City held a send-off ceremony for the application to host the Gyeongbuk Safety Experience Center.

On the 1st, Yeongju City in Gyeongbuk visited the Gyeongbuk Provincial Government Office to submit the application for attracting the Safety Experience Center along with a petition containing 50,000 signatures reflecting the citizens' wishes.

Before the submission, at 10 a.m., the city held a send-off ceremony in front of City Hall to apply for the attraction of the Gyeongbuk Safety Experience Center in Yeongju, which will serve as an opportunity for the mutual development of the underdeveloped northern Gyeongbuk region. They performed a relay performance delivering the application by walking, cycling, and marathon to the Gyeongbuk Provincial Government Office.

This event was organized to convey the wishes of 100,000 citizens hoping for the Safety Experience Center to be located in Yeongju, ahead of the application deadline for the Gyeongbuk Safety Experience Center on May 2.

The send-off ceremony included a pre-ceremony performance, a report on the progress of the attraction efforts, delivery of messages wishing for the attraction, and Mayor Park Nam-seo handing the application to Jo Gwan-seop, the head of the citizen promotion team and the first participant in the relay performance.

Following this, about 500 citizens participated directly in the relay performance delivering the application, covering approximately 40 km from Yeongju City Hall to the Gyeongbuk Provincial Government Office divided into four sections: walking (City Hall to Citizen Sports Complex), cycling (Citizen Sports Complex to Wolpo-ri, Homyeong-myeon, Yecheon County), marathon (Wolpo-ri, Homyeong-myeon to Homyeong Elementary School), and walking (Homyeong Elementary School to Gyeongbuk Provincial Government Office). Various organizations and residents then jointly delivered the application to Gyeongbuk Province.

In particular, the relay performance demonstrated the citizens' earnest will to attract the Safety Experience Center to Yeongju through a journey of about 40 km to the Gyeongbuk Provincial Government Office, involving enthusiastic participation from various institutions, organizations, and marathon clubs in Yeongju, continuing by walking, cycling, and marathon.

Mayor Park Nam-seo said, "The send-off ceremony and the long-distance relay performance have united the wishes and determination of 100,000 citizens, making our resolve even stronger. We will do our utmost to gather all local capabilities to ensure that the Gyeongbuk Safety Experience Center is definitely attracted to Yeongju City."

Last year, the city was the first in Gyeongbuk to conduct a feasibility study for the construction of the Safety Experience Center, securing its justification. In March, the city formed a promotion team for the attraction, conducting street publicity activities and banner posting campaigns to build public consensus.

Along with this, voluntary city-wide citizen attraction activities were carried out, collecting over 54,000 petition signatures?more than half of Yeongju’s population?proving the united enthusiasm of all citizens for attracting the Safety Experience Center.

On the 24th, Dr. Lee Si-hyung, known as the "National Mental Health Doctor," expressed support for the attraction of the center to Yeongju, followed by a series of support declarations from neighboring local governments, helping the efforts to establish the Safety Experience Center in Yeongju City.

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