Wando-gun Wins Excellence Award for Two Consecutive Years in Creating Clean Jeonnam Best Village

Five Villages Selected as 'Outstanding Eutteum Villages'

Wando-gun, Jeollanam-do achieved the remarkable feat of winning the Excellence Award for two consecutive years in the evaluation of the ‘2023 Clean Jeonnam Best Village Making’ project.

According to the county on the 28th, the ‘Clean Jeonnam Best Village Making Project’ is an initiative promoted by Jeollanam-do targeting over 3,000 villages across 22 cities and counties in the province to create clean and beautiful villages.

After the project was implemented, Jeollanam-do evaluated items such as resident participation, the number of excellent villages selected, performance of the promotion team, publicity achievements, and exemplary cases, selecting 75 outstanding Best Villages.

Residents of Judo Village in Wando-eup are painting a mural.
[Photo by Wando-gun]

Wando-gun was selected as an excellent city/county and received an institutional commendation as five villages?Judo Village in Wando-eup, Yeongheung Village in Gunoe-myeon, Geumgok Village in Sinji-myeon, and Jinsan Village and Cheonggye Village in Cheongsan-myeon?were chosen as ‘Excellent Best Villages.’

‘Wando Judo Village’ reexamined its past culture when seafood exports flourished in the 1960s and 70s, a time when even dogs were said to carry 500-won bills in their mouths. ‘Gunoe Yeongheung Village’ created a resting area led by residents along the Namparang Trail Course 86, which walks alongside the deep blue southern sea, and opened its clean tidal flats to the public for free.

‘Sinji Geumgok Village’ installed solar-powered night lighting to enhance residents’ security and provide visual attractions.

‘Cheongsan Jinsan Village’ utilized a closed school to exhibit historical records and developed Cheongsando tourism content linked with the Slow Walking Festival, while ‘Cheonggye Village’ collected marine waste to install sculptures on Beombawi Rock and promoted flowerbed creation and ceramic nameplate production in connection with returning farmers and fishing villages.

Wando-gun received high marks for utilizing natural resources, linking with contest projects, and implementing projects reflecting the characteristics of the villages.

Cheon Jong-sil, head of the Administrative Support Division, said, “Thanks to the residents’ active will to improve the village environment and landscape, we were able to achieve excellent results in the Clean Jeonnam Best Village Making project evaluation. We will do our best to achieve even better results in the Best Village Making project next year.”

The county plans to put greater effort into sowing the seeds of ‘resident-led’ initiatives in the soil of the Clean Jeonnam Best Village Making project, supplying the fertilizer of ‘autonomous capacity,’ and harvesting the fruits of ‘grassroots resident autonomy.’

Meanwhile, Wando-gun has promoted the Best Village Making project in 45 villages in 2021, 45 villages in 2022, and 53 villages in 2023. Next year, it plans to select an additional 40 villages to cultivate clean and beautiful villages through village landscape and environment maintenance.

Wando = Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Kyung-pil just8440@asiae.co.kr

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