1. Recyclable Waste Collection Helps Manage Community Centers (0509-2)
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Last year, the Gyeonggi Provincial Administration installed recyclable waste collection stations in a number of rural villages as pilot cases. The result seems to be a huge success. Some of the villages were able to sell the collected wastepurchased necessary equipment for their community centers. Our reporter visited one of the villages.
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1) New Equipment FundedProceedsRecyclable Waste Sales
Residents of this village in Anseong (안성) are proud to show off a brand new kimchi cooler, an electric fana TV set in their community center, which they have recently purchased with the proceedingsthe sales of recyclable waste.
2) Nam Pil-hyuin / Chief of Gahyeon-dong Residents
“We earned about 2.3 million Korean won last year. We used the money to purchase electric appliancescooking utensils for our community center.”
Residents in the neighboring village also are busy sorting the collected recyclable waste.
3) Choi Chang-soon, Reporter
“This recyclable waste collection station was built last year. Since then, the villagers could earn extra money contributing to the improvement of the environment of their village”
The environment of the village has become much cleaner since its residents stopped incinerating the waste in the field, whichillegal but widely practiced throughout the nation.
4) Kim Jin-woo / Chief of Dogok-ri Residents
“Most of all, our village has become much cleaner. The proceedingsthe sales of recyclable waste are spent for villagers. The Village Women Associationone of the major beneficiaries.”
Supportedthe Gyeonggi Provincial Administration, recyclable waste collection stations were built in fifty villages to which accesswaste collection trucksdifficult. All villages with this waste collection station show evidence that they are benefitingthe new tem.
5) Suh Bong-jo / Chief Officer of Gyeonggi Province Environment Resource Team
“We plan to install 120 more such recyclable waste collection stations this year. The collected waste will be recycled…”
The Gyeonggi Provincial Administration plans to continue to expand its support for the construction of the recyclable waste collection stations on a yearly basis.
 
2. Gyeonggi Opens Korea’s First Cultural Heritage Division (0510-3)
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The Gyeonggi Provincial Government opened a new Cultural Heritage Division for the first time in Korea among autonomous bodies. The establishment of this new department was based on a changeits previous perception of cultural assets, to that of cultural heritage
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1) Conventional Cultural Assets Management
The conventional practice of cultural asset management has principally focused on maintenancesrepairs because itbased on the perception that cultural asses are mere properties.
2) New Cultural Heritage Perception
The Gyeonggi Provincial Government, however, changed its policy for approaching the management of the cultural assets toward revitalizing their functionality,accordingly, changed the name of the Cultural Assets Division to the Cultural Heritage Division.
3) Kim Gyu-sam / Researching Officer of Gyeonggi Province Cultural Heritage Division
“This division was basically expanded to include the utilizationpromotion of cultural heritages, in addition to just their upkeepmanagement.”
4) Gyeonggi Intangible Cultural Asset Festival
As part of its new cultural policy, the Gyeonggi Provincial Administration held the Intangible Cultural Asset Festival featuring a variety of traditional handicrafts ds,registered intangible cultural assets.
5) Kang Jeong-nam / Uijeongbu Resident
“Thisa rare opportunity for me to be acquainted withappreciate traditional arts. I hope there will be many occasions such as this.
Viewers can also feel the artistic sense that carved the pieceswitnessing the s in their creation.
6) Lim Seon-bin / Gyeonggi Province Intangible Cultural Asset No 30
“The number of youths who are interested in traditional crafts are becoming fewerfewer. I hope to be able to show them how beautiful our crafts are.”
Cultural assets are now no longer the objects that we occasionally visitsee, but they are coming towards us as an object of communication.
 
3. Inauguration of the Food Safety Monitor Group (0513-1)
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The ‘Food Safety Monitor Group’ consisting of a hundred membersthe ‘Food Hygiene Monitoring Citizens Group’ was inauguratedthe Gyeonggi Provincial Administration. Our reporter examined the details.
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1) Food Hygiene Monitoring Citizens Group
Members of the ‘Food Hygiene Monitoring Citizens Group’, or ‘Food Hygiene Monitors’ in short, took to the street in a school districtyouths are being exposed to unhygienic illegal food products. They provided youths with guidance for the prevention of food poisoningsupervised restaurants to ensure hygienic food preparation. They even conducted hygiene investigations of youth restaurants, the popular haunts of young students.
2) Kim Eun-yeong / Food Hygiene Monitor
“Itour children that will eventually consume the food they sell. I want them to offer our children the food items prepared in the same way that we would prepare them ourselves.”
There are more than 1,600 Food Hygiene Monitors currently working in Gyeonggi Province.
3) 100 Food Safety Monitor Group
Among Food Hygiene Monitors, 100 were ed to form the Food Safety Monitor Group. This new group will be involved in intensive activities in four areas: prevention of food poisoning, management of children’s popular food products, monitoring of food preparation,monitoring of food product distribution
4) Kim Dong-hwi / Director of Gyeonggi Province Food Safety Division
“Members of the Food Safety Monitor Group will helps us ensure food safety at the consumer front“
The Food Safety Monitors, in addition to the Food Hygiene Monitors, are contributing to the spreading awareness of safe commercial food preparation practices.
 
4. Gyeonggi Government to Back Guri World Design Center (0513-2)
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Guri (구리) City in Gyeonggi province has been promoting the construction of the ambitious Guri (구리) World Design Center. However, the project has progressed barely beyond the drawing stage due to a disagreement with Seoul concerning water pollution issues. The Gyeonggi Provincial Government decided to step in to provide a helping hand.
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1) Topyeong-dong, Guri City
This vast areawhere the ‘Guri (구리) World Design Center’planned to be constructed. When itcompleted, it will be the first of its kind in Asia creating 110,000 new jobshuge annual economic ripple effects worth more than seven trillion Korean won.
2) park Choong0gi / Chief of Guri City Urban Development Project Team
“Seoulconcerned about deterioration of the Han River water source. We are, however, determined to addresspotential water contamination issues to the satisfaction of the Seoul City Government as well as the Ministry of Environment.”
The Green-belt Regulations that restricts development around Seoul are another obstacle facedthe Guri (구리) City Government
3) On-site Senior Gyeonggi Officials’ Meeting / Guri Art Hall (May 13th)
The senior officials of the Gyeonggi Provincial Administration held a meeting in Guri (구리) to review the proscons of the World Design Center projectdecided that the project has a great potential for tourism promotion. The Gyeonggi Provincial Government also decided to provide supportreinforcing the sewage treatment tems, the main concern of the Seoul Government.
4) Gyeonggi Province Governor Kim Moon-soo
“We will ensure that there will be water treatmenteffluent tems of the highest standard, so that the Design Center project can proceed.”
Once completed, the World Design Centerexpected to have a great boosting effect on the local economytransform the city into one of the design centers of the world.
 
5. Groundbreaking of Samsung Electronics Industrial Center (0514-2)
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Last year, the Gyeonggi Provincial Government secured a record investmentSamsung Electronics in its exclusive industrial complex in Pyeongtaek (평택). The groundbreaking construction of the complex finally took place on May 14th.
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1) Samsung Electronics Industrial Complex Site, Pyeongtaek City
A total of more than a hundred trillion Korean won will be invested in the construction of manufacturingresearch facilities, which will be built on this nearly four million square-meter site, more than twice the area of the company’s current industrial base in Suwon (수원).
2) Groundbreaking Ceremony (May 14th)
Construction began with a groundbreaking ceremony, two yearsfive months after the residency agreement between the companythe provincial government.
3) Kwon Oh-hyun / Vice Chairman of Samsung Electronics
“I am certain that this new industrial complex will lead the national industry toward the future with new technologiesbusinesses.”
4) New Businesses Plus Semiconductor Production Lines
The productionresearch facilities of new business areas such as solar energymedical equipment, as well as next-generation semiconductor production lines, will be constructed2015 when the ground preparation work will be completed.
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The access roads to the complex will be completed in 2017 followedthe opening of a KTX railway station, providing an ideal transportation infrastructure.
5) Gyeonggi Province Governor Kim Moon-soo
“The brand value of Pyeongtaek City itself will be increased,to mention the huge economic effectsthe number of new jobs”
The numbermore than thirty thousand, counting only the directly d jobsthe operation of the new Samsung Complex. With LG’s Digital Park Industrial Complex nearby, Pyeongtaek will truly become the industrial center of Korea.  
6. Hyundai Donates School Bus Safety Device (0515-3)
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Hyundai Motor Corporation donated ‘Children’s Bus Riding Safety Devices’ to Gyeonggi Province. These devices, named Angel’s Wings’, were designed to protect children they get on or off the childcare house buses.
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The mortality of children resultingcar accidents during commutingtwice as high as thatcar accidents during other hours in Korea.
1) Children’s Bus Riding Safety Devices
With this device attached on the door of the bus, much of the accidents can be preventedalerting other cars.
2) Childcare House Buses
These safety devices for children will be distributed among the childcare houses in Gyeonggi province
3) Kim Choong-ho / President of Hyundai Motor Corp.
“We hope that these devices will protect our children using the busreduce the number of car accidents involving children.”
This device workstriggering the signal to be displayed when the bus dooropened.
4) Shin Hee-yeon, Reporter
“Thisthe ‘bus riding protection device’. Itattached to the door of the bus. It prevents accidentstelling the other cars that the children are getting onoff the bus.
5) MOU for Children Transportation Safety (May 15th) / Gyeonggi Provincial Government Office Complex
The Gyeonggi Provincial Administration signed an agreement with Hyundai Motor Corporationthe Citizens Union for Safe Life Practice for the promotion of children’s safety during their commuting.
6) Gyeonggi Province Governor Kim Moon-soo
“We will also improve the traffic signals, road signsother items to protect the precious lives of our children.”
The introduction of the Children’s Bus Riding Safety Device will hopefully reduce the number of car accidents involving children.  
7. Imported Beef in the Guise of Korean Beef (0514-3)
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The ‘Gyeonggi Special Judicial Police’ uncovered large supermarkets that had sold imported beef in the guise of Korean beef on special offer. Our reporter investigated the details.
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1) Imported Beef Sold as Korean
Beef cuts in the display at the meat corner of this supermarket are real Korean beef. However, the cold room behind the display counterfilled with beefimported cows. This supermarket has been selling imported cow beef in the guise of Korean beef over the past three months, illegally making more than twice the normal profit.
2) Supermarket Staff
“It was because Maythe month of high demand. We bought beef at 11,000 won per kilogramsold at 21,000 won”
Two other supermarkets were also discovered to have sold American beef under the guise of short-time special Korean beef sale. The Gyeonggi Special Judicial Police collected samples of Korean beeftwenty seven supermarketsdiscovered that three of them werelocal produce through gene tests.
3) Bok Min-soon / Senior Official of Gyeonggi Livestock Hygience Research Center
“Itnearly impossible for consumers to visually distinguish between Koreanimported beef. You have to be a profession to tell the difference.”
Consumers are advised to check the history of legal violations of the supermarket,beware of unusually favorable offers as well as limitless refill at beef restaurants.
4) Jeong Bong-soo / Chief Investigator of Gyeonggi Special Judicial Police Yongin Team 1
“You should be extra careful when you buy Korean beef at unusually cheap prices, especially on an event sale, open sale, or short-time sale.”
The uncovered supermarkets will be fined, the Special Judicial Police continues to investigate more supermarkets further.