Gwangju Employers Federation to Host Friday Forum on the 26th with Kim Kyungsoo, Chairman of the Presidential Commission on Local Era

Kim Kyungsoo, Chairman of the Presidential Commission on Local Era.

The Gwangju Employers Federation announced on September 24 that it will host a special lecture at the 1,699th Friday Breakfast Forum on September 26, inviting Kim Kyungsoo, Chairman of the Presidential Commission on Local Era, to speak on the theme "The Future Opened by Gwangju, the Path Forward for Korea Together: The 5 Regions and 3 Special Zones Balanced Growth Strategy."

This forum has been organized amid the emergence of metropolitan area overcrowding and the crisis of local extinction as national challenges. It aims to share the government's vision for the Local Era and its core policy directions with business leaders at the forefront of the regional economy, and to explore strategies for Gwangju's future development.

On this day, Chairman Kim is expected to present a concrete roadmap for realizing the Local Era, a key national agenda of the current administration, under the theme "The Future Opened by Gwangju, the Path Forward for Korea Together: The 5 Regions and 3 Special Zones Balanced Growth Strategy." In particular, he will share an in-depth vision for the direction of Gwangju and the Honam region, focusing on the 5 Regions and 3 Special Zones balanced growth strategy, which seeks to reorganize non-metropolitan areas into five mega-regions and three special autonomous provinces to promote specialized development in each area.

As the keynote speaker, Chairman Kim is recognized as a leading expert in "local decentralization and balanced development," having contributed to laying the foundation for national balanced development during the Participatory Government and serving as Governor of South Gyeongsang Province, where he gained deep understanding and experience in local administration and regional issues.

Yang Jinseok, Chairman of the Gwangju Employers Federation, stated, "I hope this lecture will provide local companies, which are struggling with population decline and the weakening of industrial foundations, with an opportunity to seek new breakthroughs and discover future growth engines. This will be a venue for the local business community to pool its wisdom so that local governments, companies, and the central government can work closely together to usher in a true Local Era."