Director Hwang Su-cheol of the National Agricultural Museum Visits Geochang-gun ... Mutual Cooperation Between the Two Institutions

Director of the National Agricultural Museum Shares Various Opinions Including Geochang Apple 100th Anniversary Project

Geochang-gun, Gyeongnam Province announced that on the 7th and 8th, Hwang Su-cheol, Director of the National Agricultural Museum, and the Director of Future Agriculture visited Geochang-gun to strengthen the mutual cooperative relationship between the two institutions.

The delegation from the National Agricultural Museum began with a meeting with the Geochang County Governor and visited the Agricultural Technology Center, which is promoting the creation of a 100-year history street commemorating the introduction of Geochang apples, as well as the Apple Theme Park area. They expressed their active cooperation in applying the spatial configuration and operational system of the National Agricultural Museum to Geochang-gun.

Group photo of the Director of the National Agricultural Museum visiting Geochang County.

In response, Gu In-mo, the Governor of Geochang-gun, personally proposed that related agencies and staff from the county visit the National Agricultural Museum together, thus taking the first step in establishing a linked cooperative relationship between the two institutions.

On the 8th, they visited the Bubble Exhibition Hall in Imbul Village, Namsang-myeon, which was created and is operated directly by residents as part of Geochang-gun’s village development project, as well as the Village Life Record Hall in the Hangiri area of Ungyang-myeon and the Bongusan Bookstore. They investigated village-level museum cases that are expanding as positive factors for community revitalization and population inflow in the region.

They also toured the Geochang-gun Organic Industry Complex Service Support Site and Changpoweon, a complex facility with functions similar to those of the National Agricultural Museum, exchanging various opinions related to the operation of complex facilities. They expressed their intention to actively cooperate in promoting the organic complex to museum visitors in collaboration with Geochang-gun in the future.

Governor Gu stated that through the visit of the National Agricultural Museum Director to Geochang-gun, they will further solidify the mutual cooperative relationship between the two institutions by holding exhibitions themed around Geochang apples and agricultural specialties at the National Agricultural Museum.

Meanwhile, the National Agricultural Museum is located in Suwon City, Gyeonggi Province, and opened on December 16, 2022, to inform the entire nation about the public functions of agriculture and rural areas through agricultural-related exhibitions, education, and experiential activities.