Busan City Holds 'Practical Meeting of the Task Force for Discovering Local Era Transfer Affairs'

On the 10th at 2 PM, Busan City held a 'Local Era Transfer Task Force (T/F) Working Meeting' with experts from various fields participating to practically transfer authority over the tasks subject to delegation, at the first-floor conference room of Busan City Hall.

Busan City Hall.

In January, the city launched the ‘Transfer Task Discovery Promotion Team,’ composed of experts from various sectors and Busan city officials, to proactively respond to the government’s comprehensive authority transfer policy and to seek region-led development strategies.

Since then, the team has established departmental response strategies for government-discovered transfer tasks and identified new transfer tasks centered on field demand. On February 20, through metropolitan area cooperation, the governors of Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongnam jointly demanded full authority transfer over development-restricted zones.

At this working meeting, experts and task managers were divided into eight groups to discuss ▲government transfer task response plans ▲verification of effectiveness and feasibility of newly discovered tasks ▲batch transfer plans for special local administrative agencies ▲development plans for Busan-tailored Opportunity Development Zones and Education Free Zones. Subsequent meetings will continue to specify the discovered transfer tasks.

The government has declared a ‘Local Era Where It Is Good to Live Anywhere’ and is promoting the expansion of local government autonomy in organizational authority, as well as establishing grounds for designating Opportunity Development Zones and Education Free Zones.

In preparation, Busan City plans to proactively design a Busan-type development plan and continuously raise the agenda through metropolitan cooperation bodies to actively respond to authority transfer.

Deputy Mayor An Byeong-yoon stated, “Since the government shows strong will for local authority transfer, local governments must secure self-sustainability as the main agents of authority transfer,” adding, “Through operating the Transfer Task Discovery Promotion Team, we will promote region-specific projects and discover tasks that can expand practical autonomy, serving as a catalyst for realizing the Local Era.”

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