Suwon City Launches Cultural City Initiative... Administrative Council Established

[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Suwon City in Gyeonggi Province has formed an administrative council for cultural cities.

On the 22nd, Suwon City announced that it held the inauguration ceremony of the 'Cultural City Administrative Council' at the Suwon City Hall medium conference room, led by First Deputy Mayor Jo Cheong-sik.

The administrative council will play roles such as ▲ sharing policies related to cultural city creation and discovering linked projects ▲ reviewing the feasibility of citizen-proposed projects related to cultural city creation ▲ organic cooperation for establishing, supplementing, and executing cultural city creation plans ▲ linking and coordinating cultural city creation projects with major policies (urban regeneration, tourism special zone projects, etc.).

The administrative council will hold two regular meetings annually and convene temporary meetings as needed to discuss current issues until the cultural city creation project is completed.

Last December, Suwon City was selected as a target site for the '3rd Preliminary Cultural City' designated by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and is currently promoting preliminary city projects.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism conducts designation reviews for cultural cities based on document and on-site evaluations and performance presentations, and designates 'Legal Cultural Cities' at the end of December.

The core of the cultural city promoted by Suwon City is 'building cultural governance through citizen participation.'

In December 2019, Suwon City launched the 'Cultural City Citizen Council,' a citizen council to find Suwon City's cultural identity, and in May this year, to secure the sustainability of cultural city projects, it launched an 'Institutional Council' involving six collaborative institutions in Suwon, including the Suwon Sustainable City Foundation and Suwon Volunteer Center.

With the formation of this cultural city administrative council, Suwon plans to create a model case of 'sustainable cultural projects' involving citizens, specialized institutions, and administration together.

First Deputy Mayor Jo Cheong-sik emphasized, "To create a cultural city, it is necessary to rediscover the diverse cultural values of the region and present content as a cultural city," adding, "Community culture based on residents' participation must be made into a sustainable growth engine for the city."

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