Kim Hak-hong, Deputy Governor of Gyeongbuk Province, Holds Pre-Lunar New Year Shopping Event at 90-Year-Old Mungyeong Traditional Market... Also Visits Daycare Center

Kim Hak-hong, Deputy Governor of Gyeongbuk Province, held a shopping event at Mungyeong Traditional Market on the 22nd to revitalize traditional markets for the Lunar New Year and visited Mungyeong Municipal Daycare Center to deliver snacks for children.

About 80 people, including Deputy Governor Kim Hak-hong, provincial government employees, Gyeongbuk Cultural Foundation staff, and members of the Gyeongbuk Federation of Artistic & Cultural Organizations, participated in the traditional market shopping event to create an atmosphere for revitalizing traditional markets and to support local merchants.

Kim Hak-hong, Deputy Governor of Gyeongbuk Province (right), is purchasing vegetables at Mungyeong Traditional Market.

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Along with the shopping event, they visited Mungyeong Municipal Daycare Center, which opened in 2011, encouraged the staff, toured the facility, gave snacks to the children, and spent time with them.

Kim Hak-hong, Deputy Governor of Gyeongbuk Province, said, “I hope this shopping event and visit to the childcare facility will contribute even a little to revitalizing traditional markets and to the children, who are the future of the nation. I wish all residents a prosperous and happy Lunar New Year holiday.”

Meanwhile, Mungyeong Traditional Market, established in the 1930s and with a history of over 90 years, is a representative traditional market in the region. The employees actively participated in saving the traditional market by purchasing Lunar New Year goods using Onnuri gift certificates.

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