The Gumi Municipal Chapter (head: Bae In-cheol) of Gyeongsangbuk-do donated medicine to the Kyrgyzstan Branch Chapter (head: Jeon Sang-jung) of the Central Asia Municipal Chapter during a ceremony held on Jan. 14 at the Gumi City Hall.

Choi Jong-won, Vice Mayor of the city, Jeon U-seong, Chairman of the Gumi Medical Doctors Association, and 20 other members of NUAC attended the ceremony to hand over KRW 3 million worth of medicines to Baek Dae-hyeon, who is a professor at Kyrgyzstan University and also the secretary of the municipal chapter. They will be used for the Korean-Kyrgyzstanis and Koreans living in the country.

The Gumi and Kyrgyzstan Municipal Chapters established sisterhood relations in 2012, and they have been involved in active exchanges including naming one of the parks in the central area of Bishkek, capital city of the country, “Gumi Park” in 2013.