Mokpo City Finally Selected as a 'Legal Cultural City'... 10 Billion KRW National Funding Allocated

Successive Achievements Including Designation as Korea's Tourism Hub City, Cultural City, and Slow City

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Seunghyun Jeong] Mokpo City, Jeollanam-do (Mayor Kim Jongsik) has been finally selected as a legal cultural city.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced on the 23rd that, after deliberation by the Cultural City Deliberation Committee, a total of six locations including Mokpo, Gongju City, Miryang City, Suwon City, Yeongdeungpo District, and Iksan City were designated as the 3rd cultural city targets under the Regional Culture Promotion Act.

The city presented a new urban value centered on citizens, beyond the image the city holds in the final evaluation report.

Mokpo proposed a vision to start a new cultural voyage with the new urban value of cultural opening from the 1897 trade port opening to the 2022 cultural port opening, with core values of Cultural Fishermen (cultural human resources), Cultural Fish (cultural contents), and Cultural Market (local economy).

Cultural cities are designated under the Regional Culture Promotion Act to achieve sustainable regional development by utilizing distinctive cultural resources of each region and to improve the cultural quality of life of residents.

The Deliberation Committee conducted written reviews, on-site inspections, and presentation evaluations of the preliminary projects carried out over the past year (December 2020 to December 2021) and the cultural city creation plans for 16 preliminary cultural cities in the 3rd round.

In particular, the evaluation was conducted fairly based on ▲results of preliminary cultural city projects ▲securing the foundation for cultural city promotion ▲effects and potential of cultural city promotion ▲possibility of driving balanced development through culture.

The 3rd cultural city, including Mokpo, selected this time will receive up to 10 billion KRW in national funding over five years.

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