Awarded in the 'Local Brand' Category for "Seongbuk Village Archive, a Repository of Residents' Lives and Urban Records"
[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Seongbuk-gu (Mayor Lee Seung-ro)’s ‘Seongbuk Village Archive’ won the bronze prize in the regional brand category at the '2021 Local Autonomy Decentralization Awards' held under the theme "The Power that Nurtures Korea! The Region is the Brand!"
The 2021 Local Autonomy Decentralization Awards were jointly hosted by the Presidential Committee on Local Autonomy Decentralization, the Council of Local Governments for Decentralization, the Local Autonomy University, and 16 regional MBC stations, and took place on the 19th at Gwangmyeong Theater in Gwangmyeong City, Gyeonggi Province. In the era of Local Autonomy 2.0, excellent cases of local autonomy were selected through a nationwide contest among local governments and awarded.
‘Seongbuk Village Archive,’ a collaboration between Seongbuk-gu and Seongbuk Cultural Center (Director Cho Tae-kwon), was highly evaluated for its efforts and achievements in revitalizing village records, including the establishment of the first digital archive among autonomous districts nationwide in 2020, the enactment of the first ordinance related to private records among Seoul’s autonomous districts, and the establishment of a resident-centered record culture.
The Seongbuk Village Archive is a website that collects records related to Seongbuk’s history, cultural resources, and residents’ daily lives, stores them in a digital archive system, and allows anyone to easily access Seongbuk’s village records. It is an interactive communication knowledge platform where residents can actively participate in discovering village records and producing historical and cultural content.
Currently, it stores and provides about 9,000 items of various forms of digital village records such as photos, videos, publications, and oral histories. It also operates programs tailored to local characteristics by opening content on the independence movement and literature in Seongbuk, receiving great responses from residents.
The introduction video of ‘Seongbuk Village Archive’ submitted as judging material for this Local Autonomy Decentralization Awards can be viewed on the Seongbuk Cultural Center’s YouTube channel ‘Seongbuk Village Archive.’
A Seongbuk-gu official said, “We will continue to explore Seongbuk’s unique identity while collecting traces of residents’ activities and daily lives that are easily lost over time, preserving them as valuable records, and play a leading role in the development of record culture in the era of local autonomy so that local residents can feel pride.”
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