‘Sunsha-in! Looking Again’ in Progress … Gumi Seonsan, Vacant House Utilization Project

‘Good People’s Cultural Workshop’

Resident-Led ‘Humanities Village Festival’

In Seonsan, Gumi-si, Gyeongbuk, a resident-led event aimed at the development and revitalization of the village is attracting the attention of many citizens.

Vacant House Utilization Project Poster.

The Culture Workshop of Good People (CEO Kim Su-gyeong) is conducting a vacant house utilization project called ‘Seonsan! Looking Again’ (Seonsan-eup, Nammun-ro) from the 22nd to the 27th.

This project was planned to create a cultural space through spatial regeneration by operating various programs such as exhibitions, experiences, and performances in vacant houses. It is gaining more attention as a meaningful event prepared purely through participants’ talent donations and passion without any local government budget support.

Participants in this project include Alice’s Flower Forest, Happy Garden, Oh! Milky Way Workshop, Healing Pine Institute, Gyodong Tea House, Saram人

Gumi Art Factory, and Arirang Company.

Also, the Seonsan-eup Urban Regeneration Residents’ Council (Chairman Kim Seong-hwan) independently applied for a public contest and was finally selected in March for the ‘Humanities Village Creation Project.’ Throughout 2023, they plan to promote projects such as ▲village leader education ▲program operation ▲small concerts to build a sustainable village community.

As such, Seonsan, a hometown of talented people, is still a place with many talents today, with numerous ongoing efforts by resident communities to identify and solve local issues on their own rather than relying on government or local authority-led projects.

The city actively conducted a preliminary urban regeneration project last year to revitalize Seonsan, the center of the northern region, promoting resident capacity-building education (51 sessions) and staged Saturday markets (10 times) led by residents. In this process, communities like the Culture Workshop of Good People were formed, and sellers and participants who took part in the preliminary urban regeneration project are now collaborating on projects such as ‘Seonsan! Looking Again,’ pushing forward various initiatives to transform the village into a more developed community by the residents themselves.

Mayor Kim Jang-ho said, “We are faithfully establishing an urban regeneration activation plan to apply for a regional specialized regeneration contest based on Seonsan’s cultural heritage, and we will do our best to be selected for the urban regeneration contest scheduled for the second half of this year.”

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