Jeonbuk Provincial Assembly Member Yoon Young-sook: "Only Resident-Centered Projects Can Solve Local Extinction"

Provincial Assembly Urban Regeneration Research Group Visits Advanced Site Suwon City

The Jeonbuk Provincial Council Urban Regeneration Research Group (Representative Assembly Member Yoon Young-sook) announced that they visited Suwon City on the 5th and 6th to study advanced cases of locally led urban regeneration and to hear the current status of Gyeonggi-do type urban regeneration projects.

The research group attended a seminar held at the Hwanggung-dong Eoullim Center in Suwon Special City, where they received an explanation about the Gyeonggi-do type urban regeneration project called The Dream Project from An Seong-hyun, Head of the Regeneration Planning Team at the Urban Regeneration Division of Gyeonggi Provincial Government, and heard about the status of the Hwanggung-dong urban regeneration project from Heo Hyun-tae, Director of the Suwon Urban Regeneration Support Center.

On the 6th, a commemorative photo of the Jeonbuk Provincial Council Urban Regeneration Research Group's advanced site visit to Suwon Special City.
[Photo by Jeonbuk Provincial Council]

Starting with the seminar, they directly experienced urban revitalization elements such as the Hwanggung-dong urban regeneration target area in Suwon Special City, Suwon Hwaseong Fortress, food specialty streets, and historical and cultural tourism facilities.

Team Leader An said, "We are focusing on supplementing the shortcomings of government projects through the promotion of metropolitan-level urban regeneration projects. Until now, since the projects were only fitted into a framework rather than solving local problems, various side effects occurred and the regeneration effects were minimal." He added, "Gyeonggi-do divides the process into three stages: preparation, project implementation, and post-management, freely supporting projects and budgets desired by the local community, and especially focusing on activating resident participation rather than facility-centered approaches."

Assembly Member Yoon Young-sook said, "So far, urban regeneration has been demanded only for short-term support and results in projects. The province needs to promote mid- to long-term projects that will change the paradigm of urban regeneration projects. While sincerely responding to government public contests, only locally led and resident-centered urban regeneration projects are the key to solving local government issues and regional extinction."

Meanwhile, the research group is actively working together with Representative Assembly Member Yoon Young-sook, Chief Researcher Kim Jeong-su, and Assembly Members Moon Seung-woo, Lee Byung-do, Yang Hae-seok, Lee Myung-yeon, Yoon Soo-bong, Kim Jeong-gi, and Lee Su-jin.

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