Gwangju Nam-gu, Bangnim 1-dong Village Planning Team Begins Full-Scale Activities

Nam-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City, has begun full-scale activities with the goal of building the Bangjetgol community filled with the warmth of its residents in Bangnim 1-dong.

On the 31st, according to Nam-gu, residents of Bangnim 1-dong recently held a launching ceremony for the 'Flowering Bangjetgol Village Planning Participation Group' organized by the Residents' Autonomy Committee in the meeting room on the first floor of the Bangnim 1-dong Administrative Welfare Center.

The launching ceremony was attended by Jeong Min-cheol, chairman of the Bangnim 1-dong Residents' Autonomy Committee and a member of the village planning participation group, along with about 30 members, and about 20 village residents who came to celebrate the establishment of the village planning participation group.

A distinctive feature of the Bangjetgol Village Planning Participation Group is that it includes a large number of people from various fields. This is because they judged that in order to lead village development, it is very important to establish a cooperative system not only with residents but also with organizations and groups based in the village.

Currently, the Bangjetgol Village Planning Participation Group encompasses not only village residents but also village enterprise officials, medical clinics, apartment residents' representative councils, senior centers, local children's centers, and religious facility officials.

Since the launching ceremony, they have been carrying out various resident-led activities ranging from discovering various village-related agendas to establishing network cooperation systems.

First, members of the Bangjetgol Village Planning Participation Group are operating a village school for capacity building until September 13 to capture the current state of the village and envision a better future.

Residents' autonomy committee members, members of self-sustaining organizations, and residents are participating, spending busy days conducting local resource surveys and establishing future plans for the village.

In September, they will also actively engage in activities for discovering village agendas and creating action plans together with Kwon Ki-young, CEO of Experience Plus Research Institute.

They will form subcommittee meetings to prepare execution plans by part in order to build a happy village community.

Jeong Min-cheol, head of the Bangjetgol Village Planning Participation Group, said, "If we think about village problems together and solve them through public discussion, pride in the village and a sense of community will blossom." He added, "Since the Bangnim 1-dong Residents' Autonomy Committee has transitioned to a Residents' Autonomy Council, we ask for much interest in the activities of the Residents' Autonomy Council."

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