Goryeong-gun Tourism Council Conducts Natural Cleanup Activities in Royal Tomb Village

‘Cleangoryeong Tourism’ Transforms Ghost Village into Hope Village

The Goryeong-gun Tourism Association in Gyeongbuk conducted a natural cleanup activity centered around Wangneung Village, adjacent to the UNESCO Jisandong Tumuli, on the 27th.

On this day, about 50 participants, including Kim Yong-hyun, chairman of the Goryeong-gun Tourism Association, members, and executives, collected various wastes such as abandoned plastic and household garbage in the village, working hard to create a clean and pleasant tourist village environment.

The Goryeong County Tourism Association conducted a natural purification activity. Photo by Goryeong County Tourism Association

Earlier, Park Yoon-gi (64), a Western-style painter working in Goryeong-gun, expressed his intention to donate his talents to the local community, actively practicing talent donation through mural painting, sculptural garden projects, and donating his collected works.

Painter Park was also appointed as a crime prevention advisory member of the Goryeong Police Station, playing a leading role in improving the environment while enhancing crime prevention effects in the slum-affected Wangneung Village.

Kim Yong-hyun, chairman of the Goryeong-gun Tourism Association, said, “I appreciate everyone’s efforts to participate in making a better village,” adding, “We will continue to do our best to create a healthy ecological environment in the region through various community-based cleanup and volunteer activities.”

The natural cleanup activities carried out by the Goryeong-gun Tourism Association to contribute to local environmental protection have been ongoing since 2022 as part of the ‘365 Days Clean Tourism’ project, and the various household wastes they have collected so far exceed 2 tons.