2024-06-09 17:03:24
Tales of younger folks combating in opposition to fats extinction – Episode 5
Boeun Youth Village ‘Rider City Hoeinㅎo’ Lee Kyung-soo, CEO Kim Han-sol
Till early final 12 months, ‘riders’ had been nothing greater than annoying strangers to the residents of Boeun-gun, North Chungcheong Province. Though the variety of folks having fun with bicycles or using bikes has elevated in areas comparable to Pibanryeong, which connects Boeun and Cheongju, Maltijae, Suritijae, and Daecheong Lake Path, they’re no roughly than nameless beings simply passing by way of the neighborhood making loud noises.
“Why not encourage riders to remain within the space, construct friendships with residents, and spend cash? Wouldn’t that change the residents’ notion of riders?”
When Kyung-soo Lee, who settled in his hometown of Hoein-myeon 5 years in the past, got here up with the thought, his pal Han-sol Kim agreed. Mr. Kim, who has been interacting with Mr. Lee as a cultural planner in Daejeon since 2017, has been a motorbike rider since he was 19 years previous.
“okay. Let’s maintain a competition for riders and in addition maintain moto tenting (an out of doors exercise the place folks come on bikes and revel in tenting). “I hope the riders can benefit from the village, and the village residents can promote native specialties and firewood for ‘firemeng.’”
It was the second when ‘Rider City Hoeinㅎo’, a youth village created within the space of Hoein-myeon, Boeun-gun, was born. They submitted this concept to the Ministry of the Inside and Security with Mr. Kim’s enterprise known as ‘Life Neighborhood’ and had been chosen for the Youth Village Help Mission in 2023. We opened ‘Journey & Brew’, a restaurant for riders, and ‘Rider Kindergarten’, a group house the place bicycle and bike repairs can be found. We additionally created a ‘Friday-Saturday Camp’ program the place younger folks stay within the native space for 3 days and a couple of nights and expertise the village and rider tradition collectively. The primary Wheelers Pageant was held in October final 12 months by renting out the college playground and village sq., and this 12 months the second competition was held for 2 days and one night time on June 1st and 2nd. The variety of occasion associate organizations additionally elevated from 4 final 12 months to 10 this 12 months.
The faces of the 2 representatives who met domestically on the primary day of the competition had been flushed. I used to be assured as a result of it was my second time doing this occasion. 130 and 330 groups from throughout the nation utilized to take part within the kids’s bicycle competitors and the grownup bicycle competitors, respectively. Specifically, for youngsters’s bicycle competitions, dad and mom in addition to grandparents generally come collectively, so the variety of folks concerned within the competitors reached about 1,000. On the Hoein Center College playground, bike riders who arrived early arrange tents and loved bike tenting. Kim Dong-wook, CEO of the motor tenting group ‘Ant Ghost’, stated, “Greater than 50 groups determined to take part because it was a possibility to experience a motorbike and revel in tenting legally.”
Residents had been additionally very . Whereas strolling with the 2 representatives by way of the streets of Jungang-ri, Hoein-myeon, residents expressed curiosity, asking, “Have you ever ready nicely for the occasion?” and “What are you doing right now?” Native girls’s associations, youth associations, and so forth. opened meals and beverage cubicles across the occasion venue and had been in full swing getting ready to welcome friends.
Hoein is a city so massive that it was Hoein-hyeon throughout the Joseon Dynasty. Even now, Dongheonae-a and visitor homes, the place the county Justice of the Peace stayed, nonetheless stay. Nevertheless, as a result of decline within the native inhabitants, the variety of residents that when exceeded 10,000 has decreased to the present 1,700, barely hitting backside. Varied historic and cultural areas remained, together with Sajikdan and Hyanggyo, the Catholic Public Workplace at Pungrimjeongsa Temple, and the memorial corridor of poet Oh Jang-hwan, who was known as a genius poet throughout the Japanese colonial interval. Consultant Lee, who was strolling across the alleys and introducing the historical past of the village, pointed to the slate stone partitions erected right here and there.
“Ever since I used to be younger, that stone wall made me really feel relaxed. Her spouse additionally visited right here and she or he fell in love with the stone partitions, so she determined, ‘Let’s come and stay right here.’” And now he’s elevating two kids together with his spouse and pursuing his dream of saving his hometown. Hoein IC is true close by, and the site visitors setting will enhance when the Pibannyeong Tunnel is opened in 2028 and connects to Cheongju. The expectation is that if the pure setting and historic and cultural heritage create synergy, it is going to be in a position to be reborn as an ‘out of doors city membership’.
CEO Kim, who used to experience a motorbike as a result of he likes shifting round freely and having his personal time, purchased a ‘Traditional 350’ made by Royal Enfield final 12 months and is now using the streets of Hoein-myeon. “It’s good to have a passion change into work. Her spouse was in opposition to her using a motorbike, however she agreed to experience once more whereas doing youth village work. Now it’s revered as work and as a style.”
The husband settled in his hometown together with his associate, they usually additionally invited buddies and buddies’ wives to change into companions. Excluding the 2 {couples}, two of the 4 colleagues are residents of Boeun, and the opposite two are additionally scheduled to change into residents quickly. The Ministry of Public Administration and Safety has designated Hoein as a pilot shared housing advanced and is supporting the development of lodging for younger folks. The 2 representatives’ expectations are that because the variety of lodging will increase, a virtuous cycle of ecosystems might be created the place younger folks and riders who come to see the competition won’t solely stay there for a month but additionally begin companies right here. CEO Kim, a contented one that turned his passion right into a job, was crammed with pleased goals of inviting different younger companions.
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2024-06-09 17:03:24