Opening Ceremony of the 18th Yeonsu-gu Citizens Day and Celebration Events...

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Opening Ceremony of the 18th Yeonsu-gu Citizens Day and Celebration Events...

 Opening Ceremony of the 18th Yeonsu-gu Citizens Day and Celebration Events

The 18th Yeonsu-gu Citizens Day was held with the head of district office, on Oct. 4th. It was attended

by 7,000 local residents.

The ceremony event began with a performance by the Yeonsu Performing Arts Company. It was followed by a presentation of the ‘Citizen Award’ and ‘Exemplary Citizen Award’ to people who have contributed to the development of local society in each field. The head of the district office Go Namseok as well as other guests addressed the crowd with a celebratory speech.

After the ceremony, presided over by entertainer Cho Young-gu, many popular singers such as Jang Yoon-jung, Crayon Pop, Cho Hang-cho, Shin Hyo-bum, Kim Ji-hyun, and Kim Dana performed to

celebrate Citizens Day.

 2013 HYO Festival a Great Success for All Generations

Yeonsu-gu held the ‘2013 HYO Festival for All Generations’ at MunHwa park in Yeonsu-dong, from Oct 2nd~3rd. It was a resounding success.

This event was established to discover our beautiful and fine custom of ‘HYO with Happiness’, to spread HYO, and practice the respect-the-elderly concept. It is hoped to help bring HYO back into our lives at a time when society is rapidly aging. 

On the 1st day of the festival, the 17th Elderly Day celebration event was hosted along with a Bi-Bim-Bab event, a performance by the elderly senior society, HYO Madangnori, and a HYO concert. 

On the following day, a wide range of performances including contests among senior citizen centers, traditional tightrope, fusion Korean Music Nanta, and HYO harmony festival were held.

There were theme zones related to HYO that received especially fervent response: ‘Life Zone’ showed video clips of people’s lives in panorama and UCC winning works from junior high and high school students. ‘Education Zone’ provided participants with traditional courtesies by a professional instructor, and 3 theme zones presented the paintings, calligraphy, and exhibitions concerning HYO.

In addition, there were a variety of events including a traditional play experience, nail art, face painting, HYO family motto writing, HYO pressed flowers, fans, handkerchief, and HYO messages, HYO foot massages, and family photographs.

 Yeonsu Public Library Selects 2013 Great Readers List

Yeonsu public library selections of 2013 Great Readers List featuring library users who had read the most books within a year. Celebrating ‘September, the month of reading’, the library selected 30 Great Readers collected from last September, 10 people each from Yeonsu Chenghak Library, Yeonsu Children’s Library, and Songdo International Children’s Library who read the most books.

According to the library, the 30 Great Readers read 11,023 books in one year, averaging 367 books per person. Among them, the 8-year-old Lee Min-yong was spotlighted as the best reader in Yeonsu public library, ranking #1 after reading 1,217 books.