Mayor Park Hyung-jun, "Together with Citizens, We Will Make Busan a Global Hub City"

Chungnyeolsa, Memorial Tower, UN Memorial Park, Mayor Park ... Joint Memorial Service with Districts, Counties, and City Officials

"2022 was a year of great achievement as the city ranked 22nd globally and 1st domestically in the 'Smart City Index'

Busan City Hall.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Dongguk Lee] Park Hyung-jun, Mayor of Busan, will conclude the year 2022 with the "2023 New Year's Bell Ringing Event for Busan Citizens" together with citizens starting at 11:55 PM on December 31, the last day of 2022, and will welcome the Year of the Black Rabbit (Gyemyo Year, 癸卯年) in 2023 beginning with a New Year's visit to Chungnyeolsa Shrine at 9 AM on New Year's Day.

The "Busan Citizens' Bell Ringing Event," marking the end of the difficult year 2022 amid the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic and welcoming the new year with hopes for the future, will feature 24 bell ringers including Mayor Park Hyung-jun, exemplary citizens, heroes, youth representatives, and civic group leaders, ringing the bell a total of 33 times. The bell-ringing ceremony will be broadcast live on YouTube BusanTube and Bada TV.

On New Year's Day, Mayor Park, along with district mayors, the chairman of the county mayors' council, and Busan city executives, will visit Chungnyeolsa Shrine, the Chunghon Tower in Jungang Park, and the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in sequence. Through the New Year's visit, they will pay respects to the patriotic martyrs and reaffirm their commitment to governing Busan as "a city where people want to live again."

Chungnyeolsa, Busan City Tangible Cultural Property No. 7, enshrines the spirits of patriotic martyrs from the Busan area who sacrificed their lives during the Imjin War, while the Chunghon Tower honors the spirits of patriotic fallen soldiers including members of the national military.

The United Nations Memorial Cemetery is the world's only UN cemetery and a sacred site where the remains of UN soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the freedom and peace of the Republic of Korea during the Korean War are interred.

Mayor Park Hyung-jun of Busan stated, "Despite the challenges of 2022, including rapidly changing international circumstances and the triple difficulties of high inflation, high exchange rates, and high interest rates, we have sown the seeds of making Busan a global hub city and a city where people want to live again by promoting the Busan brand worldwide, achieving 22nd place globally and 1st domestically in the Smart City Index." He added, "In 2023, the Year of the Black Rabbit, together with our great citizens, we will definitely secure the hosting of the 2030 World Expo in Busan and make it the first year of a great leap forward as a 'global hub city.'"

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