Suncheon City Visits the Ecological and Cultural City of Annecy, France

Mayor Noh Gwan-gyu to Develop Ecological and Cultural Fusion Experiment, Report on Ansi-type Festival Model

Meeting with Ansi Mayor & Organizing Committee Chair, Sharing Know-how and Discussing Cooperation Between Two Cities

Suncheon City, Jeollanam-do (Mayor Noh Kwan-gyu) announced that it will visit Annecy, France, a city where ecology and culture are integrated.

This training program is scheduled for 7 days and 5 nights from the 7th to the 13th, coinciding with the period of the "Annecy International Animation Festival" (June 9 to June 15).

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Annecy is a small city with a population of 130,000, but it is a representative ecological resort city in France, boasting the cleanest Lake Annecy in Europe, backed by the Alps like a folding screen.

Also, as the "Annecy International Animation Festival," known as the Cannes of the animation world, has established itself as the world's most prestigious film festival, it attracts 200,000 people from around the world to Annecy every June.

For this reason, Annecy has earned nicknames such as "The Hidden Pearl of the Alps" and "The Animation Capital of the World," and it is loved by its citizens as the "number one city where French people want to live in their old age."

The city plans to arrive on the 8th, the day before the festival, to explore every corner of the city from the festival preparation site to the environment, transportation, culture, and tourism systems, and to carefully examine the European-style festival operation method that combines work, play, festivals, and business.

In particular, Mayor Noh and his delegation plan to share know-how on a healthy cooperative ecosystem among local governments, universities, companies, and festivals through meetings with the Annecy mayor and the organizing committee chairman on the 9th and 10th, and to seek mutual cooperation plans between the two cities.

On the 11th, Suncheon City, a leading Korean webtoon company, and a local French content company will sign a tripartite agreement to lay the foundation for fostering global cultural content companies.

Mayor Noh Kwan-gyu of Suncheon said, "We should pay attention to Annecy's model," adding, "It has become a world-class city by dressing the excellent ecological environment near the Alps with cultural content in animation."

He continued, "Suncheon is a city that possesses Suncheon Bay, the only intact coastal wetland left in the world, and the National Garden, which has become a new standard in Korea," and said, "If we elegantly incorporate cultural content here, we will also become a city to be proud of and present to the world."

He also added, "We will carefully examine each case of Annecy."

Meanwhile, after the Garden Expo, the city newly incorporated cultural content into ecology and opened the National Garden on April 1. The city's new experiment has been well received, attracting more than 1.5 million visitors within two months of opening. Attention is focused on how the city will apply the Annecy-style ecological and cultural convergence model.

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