Gwangju Buk-gu Wins Social Economy Award at Korea Local Autonomy Management Awards

On the 6th, Buk-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City announced that it won the Social Economy Grand Prize at the "28th Korea Local Autonomy Management Awards" hosted by the Korea Institute of Public Administration.

The Korea Local Autonomy Management Awards is the most prestigious evaluation system in the private sector, selecting local governments and heads of organizations that have achieved outstanding results in administrative innovation and regional development each year.

The social economy category evaluation was comprehensively conducted through document review, satisfaction surveys, interview assessments, and final evaluations across 10 items in three major areas: discovery, nurturing, and activation.

Accordingly, Buk-gu received the Social Economy Grand Prize following the Best Local Government Award for Social Enterprise Promotion hosted by the Ministry of Employment and Labor at the end of June, achieving the remarkable feat of winning the Korea Local Autonomy Management Awards for four consecutive years since 2020.

Buk-gu received high evaluations for its institutional foundation for discovering and nurturing social economy through infrastructure, organization, and hub spaces, as well as various support policies such as utilizing vacant spaces in rental apartment shopping areas as startup spaces, the Sae(SE) Youth Social Economy Academy, and customized consulting for preliminary social enterprises.

In addition, Buk-gu earned good scores for its efforts to revitalize social economy enterprises by promoting various sales support projects such as publicity and marketing, live commerce, excellent technology certification, participation in fairs and markets, and fostering the social economy ecosystem through support for building networks among enterprises.

A Buk-gu official stated, "We will continue to strive to further activate the social economy in our region through various support projects."

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