Yoon Kyung-hee, Cheongsong County Governor, Attends UNESCO Global Geoparks Network General Assembly

Yoon Kyung-hee, the mayor of Cheongsong County, attended the 10th UNESCO Global Geoparks Network (GGN) General Assembly on September 7 to promote the excellent tourism resources of Cheongsong County, Gyeongbuk, and to share current issues and strengthen cooperation among UNESCO Global Geoparks.

The UNESCO Global Geoparks Network General Assembly is the largest international event held at geoparks and is held biennially. This year's assembly was held at the M’GOUN UNESCO Global Geopark in the M’GOUN region of Morocco, under the theme "Revitalization of Tradition, Local Economy, and Geotourism."

The assembly was attended by about 800 participants from 195 global geoparks in 48 countries, as well as domestic and international local governments promoting global geoparks. From Korea, representatives from geoparks such as Cheongsong, Jeju, and Mudeungsan, the National Geopark Office, and the Korea Geopark Network participated.

Cheongsong County operated a geopark promotion booth and gave a thematic presentation titled "Educational Programs of Cheongsong Global Geopark for Popularizing Geoparks" to promote Cheongsong's tourism resources and efforts in geopark management. The county focused on benchmarking various countries' geopark educational tourism programs, infrastructure, and community cooperation projects necessary for the operation of global geoparks.

Mayor Yoon Kyung-hee stated, "We plan to apply the excellent cases learned from attending this assembly to Cheongsong County and do our best to develop a sustainable tourism industry utilizing the UNESCO Global Geopark brand and to leap forward as a glocal eco-tourism city."

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