Key Figures Including Park Chandae and Over 80 Lawmakers Attend and Offer Congratulations
Democratic Party lawmaker Shin Jeonghoon (Naju-Hwasun, Jeonnam) held a book launch event titled "Returned Gwangju, United Jeonnam" on the 28th at the Kim Dae-jung Convention Center in Gwangju. Photo by Shin Jeonghoon's office
Democratic Party lawmaker Shin Jeonghoon (Naju-Hwasun, Jeonnam) successfully held a book launch event for "Returned Gwangju, United Jeonnam" on the 28th at the Kim Dae-jung Convention Center in Gwangju, with the participation of around 10,000 supporters. Expectations are rising that Shin’s campaign for the Special Mayor of Jeonnam-Gwangju will pick up further momentum.
The event was attended by senior Democratic Party official Kang Deukgu, as well as lawmakers Lee Haesik, Kim Seonghoe, Park Seonwon, Lee Geontae, and Chae Hyeonil. In addition, Kim Youngrok, Governor of Jeonnam, Kang Gijeong, Mayor of Gwangju, lawmakers Min Hyeongbae, Lee Gaeho, and Jeong Junho-who are running in the integrated special mayoral election-were also present.
Approximately 80 other Democratic Party lawmakers, including party leader Jeong Cheongrae, as well as former party leader Song Younggil, former head of the Democratic Research Institute Lee Hanju, former vice president Kim Yong, and Jo Jeongsik, Special Political Advisor to the President, sent congratulatory video messages.
The event mainly featured a book talk and performances. Lee Kyungsoo, Vice Chair of the Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology, and Yoon Euijoon, the founding president of Korea Institute of Energy Technology, participated in the book talk, sharing behind-the-scenes stories about attracting the energy technology university, securing an artificial sun (nuclear fusion) research facility, and funding for superconducting conductor experimental facilities.
In his book "Returned Gwangju, United Jeonnam," Shin outlined the necessity and direction for administrative integration of Gwangju and Jeonnam as a response to the metropolitan concentration system and to overcome the crisis of regional extinction.
He proposed establishing an energy innovation city and a Jeonnam-style basic income as solutions to the risk of regional extinction, suggesting that, alongside administrative integration, the industrial landscape should be redrawn and a citizen-sovereign government should be realized.
Shin stated, "As Chair of the National Assembly’s Public Administration and Security Committee, I am pleased to have promoted the passage of a special bill for the launch of the Jeonnam-Gwangju Special City and to have published a book encapsulating that philosophy. With the support of around 10,000 people who attended today, I will do my utmost moving forward."
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