Suncheon City wins the "Excellence Award" in the Livestock and Fisheries category at the 21st Republic of Korea Local Autonomy Competition.

By establishing a model for innovative processing industries utilizing local agricultural products, Suncheon City improves farmers' income. Suncheon City (Mayor Noh Kwang-gyu) recently announced that it received the Excellence Award in the field of agricultural and livestock products from the Korea Local Government Management Awards, presented by the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The Korea Local Government Management Awards, jointly organized by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and The Korea Herald, is an event that encourages creative policy development in local governments and discovers projects that can be adopted by other local governments by sharing distinctive and excellent policies. This year, excellent policies from 32 local governments that achieved outstanding results in regional development in five areas—boosting regional vitality, stabilizing local prices, supporting local youth, overcoming low birth rates, and developing regional specialized ...