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On December 27th, the Gwangju Universiade Organizing Committee (GUOC) held an orientation session at the welcoming ceremony for the first group of global reporters for the 2015 Summer Universiade.
Global reporters are on-line ambassadors who promote the 2015 Summer Universiade by sharing recent news on the international event and the city of Gwangju on the Internet to encourage people’s active participation in the event. The first group is composed of 25 students from universities of USA and China as well as Korea.
At the welcoming ceremony, they received appointment letters and lectures on what global reporters need to know, such as the outline of the 2015 Gwangju Universiade, effective management of blogs and SNS as well as filming techniques.
They also carried out their first mission as reporters by writing about the welcoming ceremony on their blogs and facebook pages with encouraging messages for the event.
The head reporter, Kang Shin-hye (21 years of age, junior at Hanguk University of Foreign Studies), said, “I applied for this position with an anticipation to be a part of the international festival of college students. I feel proud to be a global reporter and will do everything I can to host the event successfully.”
By 2015, the total of 200 global reporters will be recruited by the GUOC and pass on news about the Universiade to every corner of the global village.
A source from the GUOC mentioned, “We are living in a ‘smart’ world where using social media is inevitable for promoting the Universiade effectively. There is no doubt that the global reporters will spread the news of the city and draw people’s attention to the Universiade.”
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On December 13th, the Gwangju Universiade Organizing Committee for the 2015 Summer Universiade (the GUOC) invited 18 sports federations to a meeting.
The aim of the meeting was to strengthen the collaborative relationships between sports federations, with the goal of hosting the Universiade successfully. The meeting was attended by more than 60 people including sports experts and government officials who are in charge of sports events in the region. Participants shared a variety of opinions on how to work together to prepare for the international event.
Yoon-suk Kim, the Secretary General of the GUOC, emphasized, “We need support from sports federations for economic and efficient operation of the event.” He also passed along a request that the GUOC and all sports federations join forces for hosting the most successful event in history.”
The GUOC will gear up to prepare for the event by reflecting on the experts’ opinions from the meeting and by firmly establishing a network among the sports federations in this region.
