Mokpo City Works Hard to Promote Hosting of National Medical University

5th Kim Dae-jung Marathon Efforts to Attract National Medical School

Mokpo City, Jeollanam-do (Mayor Park Hong-ryul) passionately advocated the necessity and justification for establishing a national medical school in the Jeonnam region at the 2023 Kim Dae-jung Marathon held on the 26th.

According to the city on the 27th, with a total of 2,188 participants in this event, Mokpo City, together with Mokpo National University and the Mokpo National University Alumni Association, promoted the necessity and justification of the national medical school through various means such as athlete bib numbers, posting informational notices, and operating promotional booths.

Mokpo City, together with Mokpo National University and the Mokpo National University Alumni Association, promoted the attraction of a medical school in the Jeonnam region at the 2023 Kim Dae-jung Marathon held on the 26th.
[Photo by Mokpo City]

The city has been striving to attract the medical school through various efforts, including urging the establishment of a national medical school at a National Assembly forum, conducting promotional campaigns for attracting the medical school, forming the National Mokpo University Medical School Attraction Promotion Committee, and issuing a joint government appeal for establishing a medical school in the Jeonnam region.

In particular, from the 16th to the 18th, the city participated in the 2023 Korea Local Government Management Innovation Expo held at KINTEX in Goyang City, widely promoting the attraction of a national medical school in the Jeonnam region to visitors and participants from across the country.

Additionally, on the 6th, Mayor Park Hong-ryul met with Kim Ki-hyun, the leader of the People Power Party, and Kim Young-jin, the political affairs director of the Democratic Party, stating, “The regional medical imbalance centered on the metropolitan area is worsening, and the guarantee of medical rights and health rights for local residents must not be delayed any longer.” He added, “To open an era where living anywhere in the provinces is good and to achieve true balanced development, we will devote all our capabilities to attracting Mokpo National University’s medical school and university hospital, a long-cherished wish of the southwestern Jeonnam region.”

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