Namhae-gun, Standing Tall as a Healthy Aging-Friendly City in South Korea

Excellent Evaluation in 8 Areas of World Health Organization Guidelines

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Song Jong-gu] Namhae-gun, Gyeongnam Province, received the Grand Prize at the ‘1st Korea Healthy Age-Friendly City Policy Awards’ hosted by Konkuk University Institute for Healthy Aging Society and sponsored by the Ministry of Health and Welfare.

The ‘1st Korea Healthy Age-Friendly City Policy Awards’ is an award given to metropolitan and local governments that actively implement age-friendly policies such as creative policies and infrastructure development to enable elderly people to live healthy and vibrant social lives.

Namhae-gun, Gyeongnam Province, received the Grand Prize at the "1st Korea Healthy Aging-Friendly City Policy Awards."

This competition, held for the first time this year targeting 17 cities, provinces, and local governments, aimed to discover, share, and disseminate excellent age-friendly policy cases, and evaluated them based on the eight domains of the World Health Organization (WHO) Age-Friendly City Guidelines.

Namhae-gun was recognized for joining the WHO Age-Friendly City International Network in November 2019 as the first in Gyeongnam Province, creating a convenient transportation environment for seniors, establishing a complex cultural space for learning, and organizing and operating an age-friendly city policy monitoring group that allows private sector cooperation, earning the Grand Prize.

Following the award ceremony held on the 8th at the Korea Press Center where it received the Grand Prize, on the 9th, Namhae-gun Office held a celebration and took time to review the age-friendly city policies once again.

Governor Jang Chung-nam said, “I am honored that our proactive and preemptive policies at the administrative level since 2019 to prepare for a super-aged society have been recognized,” adding, “We will continue to strive to create an environment where seniors actively participate in social and leisure activities, and where not only seniors but all residents can live well together.”

Namhae-gun was re-certified as an age-friendly city by the World Health Organization (WHO) in November last year, the first in Gyeongnam and the fourteenth nationwide, and plans to implement 69 projects over five years, including the 8th term public pledge projects, under the vision of ‘Happy Companionship, Generational Integration Namhae.’

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