Noh Dong-jin, former head of the Jeonju Fisheries Cooperative, took the helm of the National Federation of Fisheries Cooperatives, known as Suhyup, at an inauguration ceremony at Suhyup headquarters in Songpa-gu, Seoul on March 24.
He was elected as 26th chairman of Suhyup. In his inaugural speech, Chairman Noh said, “I’ll reestablish Suhyup as an entity attaching top priority to giving support to cooperatives and people in the fisheries industry to realize a ‘fishermen’s world, enriching people in the fisheries industry.’”
In the change of command ceremony, Chairman Noh said “Suhyup will be operated in a way in which top priority is given to backing cooperatives and people in the fisheries industry.”
Chairman Noh’s remarks may be construed as his determination to ramp up Suhyup’s intrinsic roles to bring more benefits to people in the fisheries industry by expanding projects to provide direct support to member cooperatives now that Suhyup graduated from obligation of repaying public funds last year.
Chairman Noh came up with a new plan to overhaul a fisheries distribution structure. “A system like the shopping platform ‘Coopang of the Sea’ will be introduced in which our fisheries products can be made available fast as value-added ones.”
He referred to a foundation in which consumers can buy fresher and cheaper fishery products, people in the fisheries industry, can be guaranteed reasonable prices.
“I take office as Suhyup chairman, carrying tasks on my shoulder to be tackled, which I wrote down on my notebook - the wishes I heard from cooperative chiefs and members while touring parts of the nation.” He pledged to put his heart and soul to make good on the precious ones one by one.
Chairman Noh served as head of the Jinhae Fisheries Cooperative twice before he was elected as Suhyup’s 26th chairman on Feb. 16. His term is four years from March 27.
Noh Dong-jin takes office as 26th chairman of the National Federation of Fisheries Cooperatives
New Suhyup Chairman Noh was elected with 47 votes, the most for any candidate, in a runoff. Three other candidates failed to win a majority in a preliminary vote and Noh was elected in the subsequent run-off.
During his electioneering campaign, Chairman Noh pledged to uphold “Enriching People in the Fisheries Industry,” build a comprehensive system to support the construction of fisheries villages, expand subsidies and loans to those in the industry and for cooperative members, establish a sea environment preservation regime by establishing a special committee on preserving the sea environment, and ease fisheries industry people’s management burden through tax and institutional reform.
In his acceptance speech upon his election, Chairman Noh said, “I’ll execute on the public pledges I made during my election campaign and recommendations I got from cooperative heads on the campaign trails across the nation, and take the initiative to support cooperatives and fisheries industry people in accordance with the purpose of the establishment of Suhyup.”
“Suhyup will mobilize all its capabilities, lest fisheries industry people get frustrated and we’ll make a fresh start to make preparations for the next 100 years,” Noh said.
“I will concentrate on reorganizing Suhyup into a horizontal structure and facilitating communication with filed cooperatives,” he said.
Noh stressed Suhyup’s intrinsic roles. “It is necessary to secure more profit, but Suhyup’s principal purpose is to enrich field cooperatives,” he said.
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