Gwangju City Unveils Hall of Fame on First Floor of Government Building

Published 14 Jan.2021 13:51(KST)

Updated 19 Aug.2025 10:40(KST)

Practicing Sharing and Solidarity, Citizens Who Spread Positive Influence Also Recorded

On the morning of the 14th, Lee Yong-seop, Mayor of Gwangju Metropolitan City, attended the unveiling ceremony of the Gwangju Metropolitan City Hall of Fame held in the Citizens' Hall on the first floor of City Hall, along with guests including Kim Yong-jip, Chairman of the Gwangju City Council, Han Sang-won, Chairman of the Gwangju Community Chest of Korea, and Koo Je-gil, Chairman of the Gwangju Honor Society. Photo by Gwangju Metropolitan City

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] On the morning of the 14th, Gwangju Metropolitan City held an unveiling ceremony for the ‘Gwangju City Hall of Fame’ on the first floor of City Hall, attended by Mayor Lee Yong-seop, Gwangju City Council Chairman Kim Yong-jip, last year's Citizen Award recipients, Gwangju Honor Society Chairman Koo Je-gil, and Yoon Taek-rim, Secretary General of the Gwangju City Administrative Advisory Committee, among other officials.

The Gwangju City Hall of Fame was established to honor social contributors and share social contribution activities with citizens to revitalize the culture of social contribution in the Gwangju region.

The Hall of Fame is divided into three zones. First, there is a space dedicated to the recipients of the ‘Citizen Award,’ which has been awarded annually since 1987 in five fields (▲Social Service ▲Academics ▲Arts ▲Sports ▲Regional Economic Promotion) to citizens and organizations who have contributed to regional development.

Currently, this zone enshrines 153 past Citizen Award recipients, with space left vacant for future awardees.

There is also a space for members of the ‘Honor Society,’ who contribute to the local community through meaningful sharing. This space enshrines the names of 114 Gwangju Honor Society members.

Gwangju City plans to fill the remaining space by discovering ordinary citizens who practice sharing and solidarity for the local community, creating warm resonance and spreading positive influence.

Mayor Lee Yong-seop said, “People who pushed away the darkness of the era and brought new light, such as the Gwangju Student Anti-Japanese Movement and the May 18 Democratic Movement, were always ordinary neighbors around us,” and added, “We ask for citizens’ interest and support so that the Hall of Fame can develop into a space that records and remembers the meaningful footprints of good and warm-hearted ordinary citizens.”