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Jeonju, South Korea 2019

Conference

Local Futures continued its unique and ongoing collaboration with the city government of Jeonju by hosting yet another Economics of Happiness conference in the city – our fifth in what has become an annual event – on October 16th-17th, 2019. 

Our first Jeonju conference in 2015 resulted in the Jeonju Declaration on the Economics of Happiness, in which the local government committed: 

 

“to shift its administrative system away from a paradigm that prioritizes growth and development towards one that puts people first, and…to create an economy that works for the people and makes local communities happy.”

The conference focused on three inter-related topics: public banks, local food, and urban regeneration through community restoration.

Along with an impressive array of voices from South Korea, we brought three international speakers to the conference: Ellen Brown (USA), Della Duncan (UK), and Anja Lyngbaek (Denmark/Mexico).

Korean Speakers

Jeon Eun-ho
– Director, Mokpo Urban Regeneration Support Center

Jung Jae-jin
– Head of Jeonju Urban Regeneration Support Center Team

Gang Sung-wook
– Manager, Jeonju Food Integrated Support Center

Kim Hyun-gon
– Aide to National Assembly Member Kim Hyun-gon

Cho Gyong-ho
– Director, Local Agriculture Research Institute

Park Soo-young
– Secretary-general, Wonju Food Cooperative

Kim Yang-woo
– Chairman, Jeonju Food Producers Association

Jang Soon-chul
– Chairman, Jeonju Meal Service Cooperatives Association

Kim Hee-yeon
– President, Jeonju Food Consumers Association

Les Sung-jin
– President, Social Innovation Banking

Hyun-joo
– Professor, Jeonbuk National University

Ju Se-yun
– Manager, Dongjak Credit Union

Yu Yu-mi
– Director, Resident Cooperative Council

Lee Dong-geun
– Chairman, Economic Community Association “Totori“

Park Yong-soo
– Chairman, Gwangjin Social and Economic Network Enforcement

and more

Click the ‘Speakers’ tab at the top of this page to view profiles of our international speakers at this conference.

Articles in the Media

Here are the main articles from the media in South Korean language:

JJN: www.jjn.co.kr/news, October 15th, 2019

JJN: www.jjn.co.kr/news, October 16th, 2019

Focus Daily: www.ifocus.kr/news, October 15th, 2019

SJB news: www.sjbnews.com/news, October 15th, 2019

Newspim: www.m.newspim.com/news, October 15th, 2019

Todayan: www.todayan.com/news, October 15th, 2019

Asia News Agency: www.m.anewsa.com/article, October 16th, 2019

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Speakers

Anja Lyngbaek – Denmark/ Mexico

is an Associate Programs Director with Local Futures, and coordinator of the International Alliance for Localization. She currently lives in Mexico on a small-holding with her family. She co-founded Microcuenca del Rio Citlalapa – a local NGO in Veracruz, focused on sustainable community development, and a rural primary school with similar goals. Anja gives talks, holds workshops and teaches on a variety of subject related to food and farming, localization and eco-technologies.

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Della Duncan – UK

Della Duncan (UK) is a Fellow at the International Inequalities Insitute at the London School of Economics and host of the Upstream Podcast, which focuses on stories of economic system change. She works with communities and organizations through workshops and consultancy projects, and offers livelihood coaching that helps individuals find their own unique contribution to economies where people and the planet matter.

Della holds a Master of Arts in Economics for Transition from Schumacher College, and a graduate certificate in Authentic Leadership from Naropa University. She has also completed Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects Intensive Program, and is a Gross National Happiness Trainer through the Gross National Happiness Center in Bhutan.

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Ellen Brown – USA

Ellen Brown (USA) is the founder of the Public Banking Institute and the author of a dozen books and hundreds of articles. In her best-selling Web of Debt (2007, 2012), she analyzed the Federal Reserve and “the money trust,” showing how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves – and how we can get it back. In The Public Bank Solution (2013) she traced the evolution of two banking models – public and private –and explores contemporary public banking systems globally.

Ellen ran for California State Treasurer in 2014 and garnered a record number of votes for a Green Party candidate. You can read her blog or listen to her biweekly radio program “It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown” on the Progressive Radio Network.

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