Bucheon City Designated as 'Cultural City'... 10 Billion Won Support

[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Bucheon City in Gyeonggi Province has been designated as a 'Cultural City.' Accordingly, Bucheon City will receive a total budget support of 10 billion KRW over the next five years. Additionally, Osan City has been selected as a 'Preliminary Cultural City.'

Gyeonggi Province announced on the 2nd that the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism designated Bucheon City as a Cultural City and Osan City as a Preliminary Cultural City in the '2020 Cultural Cities' announcement on December 30 last year.

Cultural Cities, according to the Regional Culture Promotion Act, receive support for creating regional cultural spaces, fostering regional cultural professionals, and developing regional cultural content to promote regional development using local cultural resources.

Following the policy will of Gyeonggi Province Governor Lee Jae-myung, the province is focusing on enhancing its status as a metropolitan local government and building a win-win relationship with basic local governments by expressing external support and active cooperation to attract national policy projects to basic local governments within the province.

Earlier, in August last year, the province signed a business agreement with Osan City, and in October with Bucheon City, to designate cultural cities and provided behind-the-scenes support from the application stage to secure the designation.

Bucheon City is promoting the cultural city project with the vision of 'Living Cultural City Bucheon,' aiming to establish and systematize personal and social conditions where any citizen can culturally express their thoughts.

Osan City plans to expand its existing educational city brand into a cultural city by creating a 'Cultural City Osan' centered on 'lifelong learning and education' and will proceed with projects through communication and citizen participation.

Jang Young-geun, Director of the Cultural, Sports and Tourism Bureau of Gyeonggi Province, emphasized, "Taking this cultural city designation as an opportunity, we will continuously embed the cultural diversity and uniqueness of the 31 cities and counties into people's consciousness and behavior," adding, "We will support and encourage any region in need, no matter how small the role, to achieve sustainable regional development and improve the quality of life for 13.6 million residents."

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