Yangpyeong-gun selected Kim Su-han and Jang Ho-gyun as the 2024 Citizens’ Awards. Yangpyeong-gun (Governor Jeon Jin-seon) held the 2024 Yangpyeong-gun Citizens’ Awards Review Committee on the 23rd and announced that Kim Su-han, Chairman of the Yangpyeong-gun Council of the Advisory Council for Democratic Peace and Unification, was selected as the recipient in the education, culture, arts, and sports sectors, and Jang Ho-gyun, former Chairman of the Yangpyeong Environmental Agriculture-21, was selected as the recipient in the filial piety, good deeds, clean service, and community development sectors.
The Yangpyeong County Citizens’ Award seeks out and awards those who have taken root in Yangpyeong County and have devoted themselves and served for the county’s development with diligence and sincerity, thereby contributing to fostering pride among the county’s citizens, unity, and patriotism. A total of 57 recipients have been selected over 35 occasions in two categories: education, culture, arts, and sports, and filial piety, good deeds, honest service, and community development.
First, Kim Soo-han, the chairman of the Yangpyeong-gun Council of the Advisory Council for Democratic Peace and Unification, who was selected in the education, culture, arts, and sports sectors, has served as the head of major social organizations in Yangpyeong-gun, hosting camps for children of multicultural families in the region, guiding and supporting youth on probation as the chairman of the scholarship foundation of the Yeoju District Prosecutors’ Office Crime Prevention Committee, and serving as a director of the Dream Scholarship Association. In particular, he has been leading the development of education, culture, and arts in Yangpyeong-gun through consistent scholarship support, donation of scholarships to the Korea-America Love Foundation comprised of Korean War veterans, support for free musical admissions for children, and support for the Yangpyeong-gun Youth Arts Festival.
Former Chairman of Yangpyeong Environmental Agriculture-21, Ho-gyun Jang, who was selected for his filial piety, good deeds, honest service, and community development, is known to have presented the direction of Yangpyeong-gun’s agricultural policy as ‘eco-friendly agriculture’ while serving as the head of the Yangpyeong-gun Industry Division. After retirement, he served as the Chairman of the Yangpyeong Environmental Agriculture-21 Promotion Committee and supported various agricultural activities such as the 5-year plan to foster eco-friendly agriculture, fostering eco-friendly certified farms, and operating BM activated water manufacturing facilities in line with Yangpyeong-gun’s policy direction. He is also known as a pioneer of eco-friendly agriculture in Yangpyeong-gun who actively contributed to the designation of an eco-friendly agriculture special zone.
Governor Jeon Jin-seon said, “The Yangpyeong Citizens’ Award is the most prestigious award in Yangpyeong-gun, and the recipient of the Citizens’ Award is the face of Yangpyeong-gun and a symbol of honor,” adding, “I am delighted that the two people who laid the foundation for moving forward into a new era of attractive Yangpyeong have been selected as the Citizens’ Award recipients.”
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2024-08-23 21:04:22