Osan City Benchmarks Regional Revitalization Initiatives

Osan City announced on the 2nd that it conducted "2012 Employee Capacity Building Education" from April 19 through May 1 in the areas of Wanju County, North Jeolla Province and Yeongdong County, North Chungcheong Province. The city divided into three teams to participate in one-night, two-day benchmarking sessions on advanced cases of regional revitalization.

The education program, centered on core level 6-7 administrative officials, was designed to understand community business through field visits, hands-on experience, and exchange, while creating an opportunity for communication and mutual understanding among organizational members to explore regional revitalization strategies beneficial to the local area.

The main educational content included visiting the Wanju County Local Economic Circulation Center to hear a lecture from Director Kim Chang-hwan on the operation and roles of community business intermediary organizations, and benchmarking the Anduk-ri village selected as the first village cooperative business by touring the site to understand village community projects and practical operations.

A city official stated, "Following the training conducted for senior officials in early this year, we will make continued efforts to ensure substantive and progressive mutual exchange between Osan City and the basic municipal governments of Wanju County and Yeongdong County through this second training session."

Meanwhile, Wanju County in North Jeolla Province and Yeongdong County in North Chungcheong Province continue to receive benchmarking visits from local governments nationwide as model cases of regional vitality projects.