Namyangju Achieves Four Consecutive Years of Awards at 2025 Gyeonggi Province Community Autonomy Excellence Cases Forum

[Suwon Ilbo=Eom In-yong] Namyangju City announced on the 9th that the Hwado-eup Community Autonomy Committee received the Encouragement Award at the '2025 Gyeonggi Province Community Autonomy Excellence Cases Forum' held on the 8th in Dasan Hall at the Gyeonggi Provincial Government Office.

With this award, the city has continued its record of four consecutive years of awards since 2022, demonstrating sustained excellence and competence in the community autonomy sector.

The 'Gyeonggi Province Community Autonomy Excellence Cases Forum' is an event held to share best practices among community autonomy (committee) groups within the province and strengthen the capacity of autonomous activities. A total of 370 representatives from 15 cities and counties passed the first round of written screening and advanced to the finals.

The Hwado-eup Community Autonomy Committee presented the topic 'Fun Cultural Plaza, Let's Play at the Eup Office' in this competition.

This project, based on village agendas selected through resident general assemblies, transforms the Hwado-eup Administrative Welfare Center into a cultural space that all local residents can freely use. Representative activities include △laser tag survival △Hwado sensibility cinema △healing concert for the elderly and other cultural events spanning diverse age groups.

These activities were evaluated for fostering natural communication and a sense of community as residents planned and participated themselves, and in particular, received attention as a new model for realizing community autonomy in terms of intergenerational integration and creative use of public institutional spaces.

Choi Young-gyun, Chair of the Hwado-eup Community Autonomy Committee, said, "This is a precious achievement made possible by the voluntary participation of each resident of Hwado-eup," and added, "Going forward, we will listen to the voices of residents and continue to realize cultural autonomy that everyone can enjoy together."