Pocheon-si Earns Certification as an 'Excellent Workplace for Reading Management'

Mayor Baek Young-hyun "Activating Reading Management Program... Establishing as a Humanities City"

Pocheon City, Gyeonggi Province (Mayor Baek Young-hyun) announced on the 8th that it received the ‘Excellent Workplace for Reading Management’ certification at the ‘11th Korea Excellent Workplace for Reading Management Certification Program’ hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Publication Culture Industry Promotion Agency.

Baek Young-hyun, Mayor of Pocheon (third from the left), is holding the certificate of 'Excellent Workplace in Reading Management' at the '11th Korea Reading Management Excellent Workplace Certification Program' and posing for a commemorative photo. Provided by Pocheon City

The Korea Excellent Workplace for Reading Management Certification Program is a system that grants certification to organizations that create a reading-friendly environment in the workplace and operate reading programs to contribute to the spread of reading culture. It has been held annually since 2014.

Under the vision of ‘Pocheon, a Humanities City Growing with Books,’ Pocheon City established three strategies: creating a reading-friendly environment in the workplace, building a support system for reading activities within the workplace, and spreading reading culture in the local community, and introduced reading management.

Accordingly, the city operated services such as a delivery service for desired books for public officials, reading activation education for civil servants, a book recommendation service (book curation) within the new city hall, workplace reading clubs, humanities reading leave system, book summary services, humanities lectures, and book pairing programs.

In addition, the city worked hard to share the value of reading management with the local community and spread reading culture by conducting special lectures on reading management, and was recognized for its contributions by receiving the certification.

Mayor Baek Young-hyun of Pocheon said, “This year, the initial year of introducing reading management, we made efforts to establish a reading culture starting from the public sector,” and added, “We will further activate reading management programs and expand reading management to the local community so that Pocheon can establish itself as a refined humanities city.”

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