[Seoul District News] Lee Seongheon, Seodaemun-gu Mayor, Participates in Autumn Cleaning with Sinchon-dong Residents at 7 AM on the 21st & Over 1,000 Participants Including Neighborhood Leaders and Community Members Across 14 Neighborhoods... Dongdaemun-gu Foreign Volunteer and Family Volunteer Groups Join 60 Residents for 'Jupgging' Activity
Seodaemun-gu Wins First Overall Victory at the 2022 Seoul Citizens Sports Festival
Seongheon Lee, Mayor of Seodaemun District (center), cleaning together with sanitation workers in Sinchon in the early morning of the 7th of this month.
[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Seodaemun-gu (Mayor Lee Seong-heon) will conduct an "Autumn CLEAN Big Cleanup" across all 14 neighborhoods in the district for about an hour starting from 7 a.m. on the 21st.
About 1,000 people including community leaders, members of local professional organizations, residents, and public officials will participate, and Mayor Lee Seong-heon will join residents in Sinchon-dong for the cleanup activities.
They will focus on checking for illegal dumping in their assigned areas, picking up trash, maintaining road flowerpots, and removing illegal postings.
Additionally, a campaign will be held to inform residents about the days for household waste disposal and methods for separating recyclables.
Earlier, on the 7th of this month, Mayor Lee also worked alongside sanitation workers from 5 a.m. for about an hour cleaning the Sinchon Myeongmul-gil and Yonsei-ro areas, and plans to participate in about ten more cleanup activities by the end of this year.
Mayor Lee Seong-heon said, "I sincerely thank the residents who joined the early morning autumn cleanup, and I will work even harder to make Seodaemun-gu clean and pleasant."
Seodaemun-gu is accelerating efforts to create a clean urban environment by promptly resolving household waste complaints and strengthening illegal dumping crackdowns through an information-sharing room operated jointly by the district's illegal dumping control team, mobile cleaning team, and neighborhood community center staff.
Dongdaemun-gu (Mayor Lee Pil-hyung) foreign resident volunteer group, composed of multicultural families, has actively stepped up to protect the environment.
On the 17th, about 60 residents including the foreign resident volunteer group and family volunteer group from Dongdaemun-gu Family Center (Director Han Mi-young) conducted trash collection activities and an environmental campaign around Cheonggyecheon Stream and Yongdu-dong.
This campaign, led mainly by the foreign resident volunteer group, was planned to protect the local environment through volunteer activities and to support immigrants' natural participation in community activities.
On that day, volunteers collected trash around the stream and pedestrian paths through "plogging," an activity combining walking or running with picking up litter. They also held a placard campaign with messages encouraging environmental protection in daily life and an environmental protection participation pledge.
Han Mi-young, Director of Dongdaemun-gu Family Center, said, "All volunteers participated passionately with affection for the community, allowing us to see clean streets free of litter," and added, "We will continue to run various volunteer programs centered on the foreign resident volunteer group to help multicultural families living in Dongdaemun-gu naturally settle as members of the community."
Seodaemun-gu (Mayor Lee Seong-heon) announced that it won the overall championship at the "2022 Seoul Citizens Sports Festival" held at Jamsil Sports Complex on the 17th and 18th of this month.
This is the first time Seodaemun-gu has won the overall championship in the 16th edition of the event.
About 400 residents from the district participated in 23 events, winning first place in basketball shooting and ball pool basketball, and placing in eight other events including badminton, achieving the best results among the 25 autonomous districts.
On the afternoon of the 18th, Mayor Lee Seong-heon congratulated Lee Dong-jun, Chairman of the Seodaemun-gu Sports Council, and the athletes who visited the district office carrying the championship flag and trophy, saying, "Congratulations on the historic first overall championship, and we will continue to strive to improve residents' health and welfare through community sports."
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