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Liu Minxia
GWANGYANG City of South Korea, which established friendship-city ties with Shenzhen in 2004, has the same goal as Shenzhen: to develop the cultural industry.
"Gwangyang is a young city, which doesn't have a profound culture background. But I believe that our cultural industry will develop much faster through cooperation between each other," said Jeong Hyun-Bok, vice mayor of Gwangyang, on the sidelines of the ICIF on Thursday night.
There were two South Korean exhibition booths at the ICIF, the smaller one showing tourism destinations in South Korea, and the larger one showcasing cultural projects of Gwangyang.
"This time we present to visitors our cultural and tourism projects through pictures and videos. Next year, we'll bring our exhibition at the ICIF to a larger scale," said Jeong. "We are grateful that Shenzhen government holds such a great annual event, which gives us the opportunity to promote the South Korea and Gwangyang cultures."
Gwangyang, located in the south of Korean Peninsula, quickened its pace of urbanization in the 1980s and is one of the fastest developing South Korean cities. Gwangyang is also a port city and home to POSCO's Gwangyang Steel Works, the largest facility of its kind in the world.
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