Culture ambassadors of Suwon

Suwon is a city with a globally famous culture and tourism resources, highly advanced and technologically rich assets. Located on the southern central area of Gyeongi-do province, Suwon is the largest self-governed cities in South Korea with the populations of 1.1 million. It has made a tremendous growth both in its life style and technological advancement in recent years.  Suwon cultural foundation is the organization to bring the city of Suwon to a level where the dreams of a role model city met with culture, traditions and advancement. For this purpose, the foundation wishes for the human cooperation for the high dignity and the beauty and wants to perform the emotional role to nature and advance the culture through resourceful cultural events.

Suwon cultural found is doing a great job by promoting the culture heritages of Suwon. For this purpose a communication network is developed by involving government, local people and foreign residents of Suwon with the assurance to share freedom without threshold beyond the insight and restrictions. It is one of the reasons that the SCF has recruited a number of foreigners as culture ambassadors who are currently residing in Korea to promote the culture heritage of Suwon city. This is a great effort by the SCF to spread fragrance of the culture and art widely among the people of Korea and abroad.

I am one of those who have this prestige to promote the Suwon city with my blogs. The other members included from China, Japan, Azerbaijan and Germany. They are Nihat Khalilzadi & Farhad Mayilov (Azerbaijan),Deelp Kumer, myself and Nasir Khan (Pakistan), Cindy Xinlain Yu & Hui  Li(China) and Mai Kodira& Miyo Tobisawa (Japan). We had an opening ceremony on 26^th April in which all the ambassadors are awarded with the honorary shields and letters of appointment. We had a nice discussion about the role and responsibilities of the culture ambassadors followed by enjoying the martial art show. This was my second experience watching this show but I enjoyed it like I am viewing it for the first time. We had a short tour of the Suwon Hwaseong palace and the guide provided us information about the history of the palace which was quite interesting. At the end of the tour we had a tasty Korean lunch with lots of foods for the vegetarians.

Duties of the SCF Ambassadors:

1-      Share Suwon culture, art and tourism information through their sns

2-      Participate in a complimentary Familiarization tour and write a review about it

3-      Participate as a guest reporter during festivals and events.

4-      Look for a place in Suwon that can be introduced to the people of your country.

The following benefits to their ambassadors.

1-      Free pass to Suwon Hwaseong Fortress –free for ambassador with a guest

2-      Enjoying every bit of Suwon

3-      Admissions to events hosted by Suwon city

4-      Best ambassador award and present

5-      Ambassador certificate

We had a good time, sharing their views and thoughts about how to cope with our responsibilities. The future planning was also discussed and a strategy was developed to cover the festivals, culture and tourism events. All the members dispersed after the meeting with the hope that every one of them will play their role to cope with the tasks.