Iksan City Takes a Big Step Toward Designation as a Legal Cultural City

Accelerating Selection as a Preliminary Cultural City Including Hosting Citizen Reporting Meetings

After the Iksan Cultural City Development Plan citizen briefing session, Mayor Jeong Heon-yul and the promotion committee members are taking a commemorative photo. Photo by Iksan City

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Hong Jae-hee] Iksan City, Jeonbuk, which preserves UNESCO World Cultural Heritage, has taken a big step closer to being designated as a legal cultural city by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

On the 20th, the city announced that it held a citizen briefing session on the cultural city creation plan for the designation of a legal cultural city at the Iksan Wangdo Future Heritage Center, attended by Mayor Jeong Heon-yul and about 20 members of the Cultural City Promotion Committee.

This year, to establish the cultural city creation plan, the city went through various opinion-gathering processes such as the full meeting of the Cultural City Promotion Committee, subcommittee discussions, citizen planning discussions with the Hope Solidarity, and operation of citizen story weeks.

In addition, reflecting the characteristics of the cultural city project targeting the entire city, the city held interdepartmental administrative governance meetings to coordinate and eliminate overlapping projects by linking various projects promoted by each department, and continued discussions on the division of roles by department.

Through these various methods of gathering opinions from citizens and administrative departments, the Iksan cultural city creation plan was named “Iksan, a Cultural City Where History Becomes Economy,” embodying the core values of “History for today, Art for daily life, Culture for the city.”

The detailed projects are organized into 22 projects across 7 fields based on the basic directions of ▲ modern succession of history ▲ a cultural city where citizens are the owners ▲ reconfiguration of urban space ▲ integration of cultural resources.

Mayor Jeong Heon-yul said, “This cultural city creation plan reinterprets history in a new way where Iksan’s history becomes industry and art becomes jobs,” adding, “We will do our best so that the designation as a cultural city can rediscover the cultural value of our region, improve citizens’ lives economically and culturally, and become a driving force for regional development that allows Iksan to move toward a new future.”

Meanwhile, Iksan City plans to submit the cultural city creation plan by the 24th for the legal cultural city designation promoted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and is accelerating efforts to be selected as a preliminary cultural city by the end of November.

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