Suncheonman National Garden, Opening

A New Leap for Garden Culture City Officially Begins

Over 2,000 Citizens Participate in the Giant Ani Avengers Parade

Suncheon City, Jeollanam-do (Mayor Noh Gwan-gyu) has grandly raised the curtain on a new leap forward from a garden city to a garden culture city.

On April 1st, the Suncheonman National Garden opening ceremony was held at the Nammun Space Hub with the theme "Suncheon, a place even astronauts visit," attended by about 10,000 citizens and visitors.

[Photo by Suncheon City]

The event was attended by Yoo In-chon, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, who will support the animation cluster industry that Suncheon City is focusing on as a future industry, Kim Young-rok, Governor of Jeollanam-do, Nam Sung-hyun, Administrator of the Korea Forest Service, and other central government officials.

The event proceeded in the order of a joint performance by 200 children and youth who will be responsible for Suncheon’s future, a proclamation ceremony for the leap to a garden culture city, and a parade of citizens from 24 eup, myeon, and dong districts.

In particular, the massive Ani Avengers parade, in which about 2,000 Suncheon citizens participated wearing characters representing the 24 eup, myeon, and dong districts, amazed the audience with its tremendous scale and splendor.

The city plans to unite the energy of all citizens for the leap to a garden culture city, using the opening ceremony of the national garden, which has been newly renovated after the 2023 Garden Expo, as an opportunity.

Yoo In-chon, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, who attended the event, said in his congratulatory speech, “When I visited Suncheon in 2008, I remember Mayor Noh Gwan-gyu saying that he would bet everything on ecology and the environment after seeing the tidal flats and design the future as a city that saves the environment.”

He continued, “Coming here again, I was surprised to feel that what was thought of then is being accomplished,” and added, “Now Suncheon is reborn as a garden culture city. I hope everyone here will lead the new Suncheon.”

Mayor Noh Gwan-gyu of Suncheon said, “The national garden has been completely reborn by adding cultural content to excellent analog elements,” and “Now Suncheon will newly leap beyond a garden city to a global cultural city through the power of gardens and culture.”

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