Launch of the Seoul Regional Council of the National Integration Committee

Kim Hyun-ki, Chairperson of the Seoul Metropolitan Council, Joins Hands with the 'National Integration Committee-Seoul City' to Resolve Conflicts Blocking Social Development

On the 2nd, Seoul Metropolitan Council, National Integration Committee, and Seoul City Sign a Memorandum of Understanding and Launch the National Integration Committee Seoul Regional Council

Chairperson Kim Hyun-ki: “We Will Become a Pillar of National Integration to Overcome the Abnormal Past Marked by Conflicts”

Kim Hyun-ki, Chairperson of the Seoul Metropolitan Council, announced on the 2nd that the Seoul Metropolitan Council will play a key role in national integration by signing a 'Tripartite Memorandum of Understanding among Seoul Metropolitan Council, National Integration Committee, and Seoul City,' aiming to overcome the 'abnormal past' marked by conflicts.

On the same day, the Seoul Metropolitan Council held a tripartite MOU signing ceremony at Seoul City Hall with the National Integration Committee and Seoul City, initiating concrete cooperation and discussions to resolve social conflicts and realize national harmony.

The signing ceremony was attended by about 40 people, including Chairperson Kim, Kim Han-gil, Chairperson of the National Integration Committee, Oh Se-hoon, Mayor of Seoul, and 25 newly appointed members of the National Integration Committee Seoul Regional Council.

According to the signed MOU, the Seoul Metropolitan Council, National Integration Committee, and Seoul City will establish a cooperative system to promote national integration policies and projects, spread a culture of national integration, and prevent and resolve conflicts at the regional level, continuing joint efforts for national integration.

Chairperson Kim Hyun-ki pointed out, “The cost of conflicts in Korean society, estimated by the Samsung Economic Research Institute, reaches up to 246 trillion won. Various conflicts such as regional, ideological, generational, gender, and wealth disparities have become chronic diseases hindering Korea’s social growth,” and emphasized, “We must work hand in hand with the Yoon Suk-yeol administration, which has declared ‘integration politics without division and an integrated government,’ to overcome the past of conflicts.”

He added, “Going forward, the Seoul Metropolitan Council will faithfully implement the spirit of the era of integration through legislation such as ordinances and budget support, healing the scars of social conflicts and finding a new path of integration.”

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