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Gumi City Hosts Industry×Culture City Forum, Local ESG Model

Over 100 Participants from Nationwide Local Governments, Businesses, and Cultural Institutions Attend

The Gumi Cultural City Support Center in Gyeongbuk (Director Seo Young-su) held the ‘Gumi Industry × Cultural City Forum: Local-Enterprise Win-Win ESG’ on the 20th at Brown Hands Gumi branch.

Gumi City Cultural City Forum.

This forum was organized to explore a new model of local ESG where the industrial city, local community, and enterprises can coexist, and to discuss the use of technology for people and local communities. It was cooperated and supported by several organizations including the Gumi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Gyeongbuk Employers Federation, and Korea Industrial Complex Corporation Gyeongbuk Regional Headquarters.

Local ESG refers to corporate management activities that consider social responsibility for coexistence with local communities beyond social and environmental activities.

Professor Mo Jong-rin of Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies, known as the alleyway economist, gave the keynote speech on the theme of ‘Corporate Local ESG,’ followed by a presentation by Kim Hee-dae, head of the Global Cooperation Center at Daegu Technopark, on ‘Local Governance Processes and Cases for Technology Utilization.’

The forum concluded with case presentations of exemplary local ESG examples, including ‘Danggeun Market,’ which recently became a unicorn company, ‘LG Gyeongbuk Council,’ which has long been active as a cultural learning mate in Gumi, and ‘SK Siltron.’

About 100 participants including companies, administrative and cultural institution officials from Gyeongbuk Province, Seoul, Gyeonggi Province, Yangpyeong, and over 20 local governments nationwide showed high interest in revitalizing local culture based on coexistence between local communities and enterprises.

Mayor Kim Jang-ho said, “I hope this forum will be a starting point to spread a culture of solidarity and cooperation among many cities, companies, and institutions,” adding, “Gumi City will take a leading role as a cultural hub city of South Korea beyond Gyeongbuk.”

Gumi City and the Gumi Cultural City Support Center have been continuing various activities such as public-private cooperative projects with local companies and public institutions, hosting Industry × Cultural City forums, and establishing cultural hub spaces to lay the foundation for autonomous regional development and build a metropolitan-type cultural city leading model under the value of ‘freedom and solidarity.’

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