Haenam-gun Awarded 'Best Prize' in Clean Jeonnam Top Village City and County Evaluation

Three Consecutive Years of Excellence for Outstanding Si-Gun, Four Excellent Villages Selected Including Samsan Geumsan Village

Haenam-gun, Jeollanam-do, received the Grand Prize in the ‘2023 Clean Jeonnam Best Village’ project hosted by Jeollanam-do, securing a prize money of 50 million KRW.

According to the county on the 24th, following the Excellence Award in 2021, Haenam-gun has been recognized for its outstanding achievements in improving residents' quality of life through village development by winning the Grand Prize for two consecutive years in 2022 and 2023.

This year, Haenam-gun had a total of 159 villages participating in the Best Village project, including 51 new villages, 62 second-year Best Villages, and 46 third-year Best Villages.

Hwaweon Sinpyeong Village has been selected as an excellent village and will receive an additional 2 million KRW in project funds for next year.
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By promoting various types of projects tailored to each village’s characteristics and conditions, such as creating flower paths, painting murals, and environmental cleanup activities, the initiative spreads the awareness that ‘My village is nurtured by my own hands’ and serves as a catalyst for revitalizing the community.

In addition to winning the overall Grand Prize, four Best Villages in the county were selected in the Excellent Village evaluation.

Samsan Geumsan Village, Okcheong Cheongryong Village, Gyegok Wolshin Village, and Hwawon Sinpyeong Village were selected as Excellent Villages and will receive an additional 2 million KRW in project funds for the next year.

Samsan Geumsan Village created a village flower garden with blueberry saplings and installed solar-powered LED lights in each house, significantly brightening the village atmosphere.

In Okcheon-myeon’s Cheongryong Village, where the lotus-filled Cheongryong Reservoir is located, flower beds including lotus flowers have been created along the Cheongryong Trail, and a village trash pickup campaign is being conducted.

Gyegok-myeon’s Wolshin Village and Hwawon-myeon’s Sinpyeong Village also achieved great effects in improving village scenery by creating rose gardens.

In particular, Sinpyeong Village, participating in the project for three years, established a rose street along the Shindeokcheon stream that runs through the village, and as a result of continuous maintenance, held a village rose festival this year supported by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs’ rural festival support program.

The county accelerated project implementation and maximized synergy effects by collaborating with the project promotion team composed of the deputy county governor, heads of cooperating departments, and heads of each eup and myeon, as well as various social organizations and linking with the county’s own projects.

A county official stated, “The Clean Jeonnam Best Village project will not simply end with cleaning up villages but will continue as sustainable village development through follow-up management, linkage with other projects, sharing of best practices, and study tours to advanced sites. We will also spare no interest and support to ensure that community activities are carried out more actively.”

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