Miryang-si Recognized as the Best Cultural City

Highly Praised for Conducting Various Collaborative Projects and More

Miryang City in Gyeongnam was selected as the best city leading balanced development through culture in the 2022 Cultural City Creation Project performance evaluation conducted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Cultural City Deliberation Committee targeting 18 legally designated cultural cities nationwide.

Having been selected as the 3rd Cultural City in 2021, the city led the participation of many citizens in the first year of the project in 2022, aiming to "expand the social infrastructure to become a small but strong cultural powerhouse city," with 105 organizations, over 1,000 cultural actors participating, and about 60,000 citizens enjoying cultural experiences.

Jang Byung-su, Director of the Miryang City Cultural City Center, is presenting the key achievements of the Miryang City Cultural City Development Project.
[Image source=Miryang City Hall]

Through various project linkages such as the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism's 2022 Korea Culture Month, Gyeongsangnam-do's Youth-Friendly City project, and the Ministry of SMEs and Startups' Commercial District Renaissance project, a foundational system for urban growth and development through culture was established.

Additionally, in the process of creating the Hae-sal Culture Campus by utilizing the former Miryang University idle site, which had been abandoned for 18 years, the city led linkages with projects such as the Ministry of the Interior and Safety's Communication and Cooperation Space Creation Project, the Ministry of Employment and Labor's Polytech University Creation Project, and the Gyeongsangnam-do Office of Education's Sea of Wisdom Library Project, integrating these to serve as a hub that promotes linkage and cooperation among various urban policies.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, in its announcement of the "2023 Cultural City of the Year," evaluated Miryang's promotion of the Hae-sal Culture Campus creation by stating that "urban policies have been reorganized from a cultural perspective," selecting this as one of the five major achievements of the cultural city.

Mayor Park Il-ho said, "Miryang is facing many difficulties due to population decline and the hollowing out of the old downtown area, but through the successful promotion of the Cultural City Creation Project and systematic performance management, we will build a sustainable cultural ecosystem and grow into a city where citizens are happy and a vibrant cultural economy thrives."

Based on the achievements of the 2022 Cultural City Creation Project, the city plans to strengthen Miryang's cultural identity, expand projects encompassing culturally marginalized areas, and create a foundation for sustainable urban growth through the discovery of various linked projects.

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