Pledging a New Leap Forward as Rural Women Leaders
Practicing Neighborly Love
The Korea Life Improvement Yeongdeok County Federation, a non-profit organization, held the inauguration and retirement ceremony for the 15th and 16th presidents on the afternoon of the 14th at 2 PM in the auditorium on the 2nd floor of the Yeongdeok County Agricultural Technology Center.
The inauguration and retirement ceremony of the 15th and 16th presidents of the Korean Life Improvement Yeongdeok County Federation is taking place. Photo by Yeongdeok County
The event was attended by about 140 people, including Kim Gwang-yeol, Yeongdeok County Governor; Kim Seong-ho, Chairman of the Yeongdeok County Council and council members; Hwang Jae-cheol, member of the Gyeongsangbuk-do Provincial Council; Son Kyung-ae, Vice President of the Korea Life Improvement Gyeongsangbuk-do Federation; heads of agricultural organizations; and Life Improvement members.
In his congratulatory speech, Yeongdeok County Governor Kim Gwang-yeol said, “I thank the 15th president Kim Gye-hwa for her hard work and congratulate the 16th president Yoo Soon-hee on her inauguration. I deeply appreciate the Life Improvement Association for being a key part of our era and for voluntarily participating in fostering healthy rural families and developing local communities despite difficult conditions as women farmers.”
Newly appointed president Yoo Soon-hee pledged, “The Life Improvement Association will do its best to become a model organization that leads rural society as women leaders, strengthens the unity of its members, builds happy families, creates a vibrant rural community, and advances the status and rights of rural women.”
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