[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] Centered on civic activists who highly evaluate the achievements of Gwangju Metropolitan City's 7th term of elected administration's cooperation and communication governance, the ‘People's Nation Gwangju! Lee Yong-seop Citizen Camp’ has been launched.
The ‘Lee Yong-seop Citizen Camp’ announced that it held its launching ceremony on the afternoon of the 5th at the election office of Lee Yong-seop, the prospective candidate for mayor of Gwangju Metropolitan City.
At this event, citizens actively representing various fields such as women, civil society, May 18 Democratization Movement, education, culture and arts, social economy, village communities, green transportation, animal welfare, human rights and public interest, labor-management coexistence, urban regeneration, AI youth startups, welfare for the disabled, youth, social welfare, and climate energy participated in large numbers as ‘co-heads of the headquarters.’ The age range is also widely distributed from young people in their 20s and 30s to those in their 60s.
In particular, elders who have played a role in the local community, such as Seo Ok-hee, former secretary-general of YWCA, Park Hyun-ok, former chairman of the Gwangju-Jeonnam Democratization Movement Comrades Association, Chu Hye-sung, president of the May Love Association, and Shin Jin-hee, president of the Gwangju Minhwa Association, joined to add meaning to the ‘Citizen Camp.’
Also, Choi Young-tae, former dean of the College of Humanities at Chonnam National University, Park Jae-man, former executive representative of the Gwangju Citizens' Organizations Council, Lee Myung-ja, former director of the May Mothers' House, Baek Hyun-ok, president of the Youth and Family Welfare Counseling Association, and Jo Yoon-jung, chairperson of the Women’s Vision Network, who are already serving as co-chairpersons of Lee Yong-seop’s joint election committee, also support the activities of the ‘Citizen Camp.’
They unanimously stated, “We ask candidate Lee Yong-seop to be a ‘tool of communication and cooperation’ so that the achievements made during the 7th term of elected administration can be sustainable and grow even bigger,” and “We will fill in the regrettable and insufficient parts of the 7th term by gathering the wisdom and strength of the citizens.”
Going forward, the ‘Lee Yong-seop Citizen Camp’ plans to operate as a platform connecting citizens and the mayoral candidate, and as a citizen policy platform where citizens’ wishes become policy pledges.
The co-heads of the headquarters expressed their ambition, saying, “In the 8th term of elected administration, we will work with hope, expectation, and responsibility to create a model of genuine citizen autonomous government in Gwangju.”
Prospective candidate Lee Yong-seop said, “Now is an era of collective intelligence where the best solutions can be found by gathering the opinions of many citizens and making decisions together rather than by the determination of one outstanding leader,” and “I ask the ‘Citizen Camp’ to become a precious driving force on the path to continuing the achievements of the 7th term’s public-private cooperation and communication governance and completing ‘a bigger and stronger, People’s Nation Gwangju.’”
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