"Why Did You Fail?" Sharing Failure Experiences and Encouraging Retry... Busan City Signs Agreement for '2021 Failure Expo'

Busan City and 3 Local Governments, 14 Public and Private Institutions Organize Autonomous Planning Programs

Panoramic view of Busan City Hall.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] Busan City signed an agreement with the Ministry of the Interior and Safety to hold a ‘Failure Expo’ that studies failure experiences and turns them into assets for retrying.

Busan City (Mayor Park Hyung-jun) announced that it held an online agreement ceremony for the Failure Expo on April 23, which shares various failure experiences of citizens and socially capitalizes them to encourage retrying.

The agreement ceremony, signed by 17 organizations including Busan City, was composed of two parts.

The first part was conducted through non-face-to-face electronic signatures using a blockchain technology-based system, and the second part included programs such as event and participating organization introductions, agreement signing, stakeholder workshops, expert lectures, and practical training.

Busan City, along with Daegu City and Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, will hold regional expo-style events centered on regional promotion committees.

Fourteen private and public organizations and groups, including Hocheon Village Residents’ Council and Saenggakhan Bada, plan to operate autonomous planning programs tailored to the characteristics of each organization to support recovery from failure and retrying.

Busan City plans to focus on deliberation programs involving experts and citizens to find solutions that can help share and spread failure experiences and support retrying.

Additionally, to encourage active citizen participation, various methods will be applied to failure pardon applications and the selection of deliberation topics to prepare a meaningful event.

Details such as the event schedule, location, content, and application period will be finalized around the end of May to coincide with the Ministry of the Interior and Safety’s ‘Failure Expo Proclamation Ceremony’ and will be promoted through YouTube, the event website, and SNS.

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