Gwangju Youth Support Center Selected as '2025 Best Youth Space'…Three Consecutive Years of Excellence

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Eom In-yong] The Gwangju Youth Support Center's 'The Nourish Platform' has been selected as the best youth space in Gyeonggi Province's '2025 Gyeonggi Youth Space Activation Project,' following selections in 2023 and 2024.

With this, the Gwangju Youth Support Center has achieved a major accomplishment by receiving three consecutive years of excellent evaluations and securing 50 million won in project funding this year.

In particular, the center received high praise from the evaluation committee by presenting diverse achievements and cases, including the 'Youth Care Project' targeting isolated and withdrawn youth and those in prolonged rest or job search despair, the 'Youth Entrepreneur Network' that promotes exchange and growth among youth, and youth-led space activation through autonomous organization operations.

Kim Jong-ha, director of the Youth Support Center, said, "This selection as the best represents the result of listening to young people's voices and building the space together. We will continue to develop and expand programs that allow youth to lead and grow together."

Mayor Bang Se-hwan said, "I am very pleased that the Gwangju Youth Support Center has been recognized as the best youth space in the province. We will expand youth policies that young people can actually feel and make Gwangju a city where young people want to live and stay."