Busan City Signs Sister City Agreement with Liverpool Metropolitan Area

Busan City signed a sister city cooperation agreement with the Liverpool City Region at the Liverpool City Region headquarters in the United Kingdom at 9:30 a.m. local time on the 27th.

The Liverpool City Region, established in 2014, is a metropolitan union in the UK consisting of Liverpool City, Halton City, Knowsley City, St Helens City, Sefton City, and Wirral City.

This agreement was arranged to strengthen cooperation between the two cities and to combine efforts for sustainable development, thereby enhancing competitiveness in the international community, following a visit request from Steve Rotheram, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, last year.

At the signing ceremony, Park Hyung-joon, Mayor of Busan, and Steve Rotheram, the first Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, attended and signed the agreement in person.

Busan Mayor Park Hyung-jun (left) and Steve Rotheram, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, are taking a commemorative photo after signing the agreement.

Through this sister city cooperation agreement, the two cities plan to promote exchanges and cooperation in various fields including ▲ clean energy ▲ digital (smart city) ▲ industry-academia-government cooperation (human exchange, scientific research) ▲ economy, trade, and health.

Additionally, the ‘Korea-UK Urban Innovation Twins Project,’ initiated with the participation proposal from the British Embassy in Korea, is scheduled to continue until March 2025.

Mayor Park Hyung-joon of Busan stated, “With the signing of the sister city cooperation agreement with the Liverpool City Region, a union of six cities including Liverpool, well known as the city of The Beatles and football, our city’s global status has been further elevated.”

He added, “We will share technologies and experiences between the Liverpool City Region, which leads in health, chemistry, artificial intelligence (AI), and carbon neutrality, and our city, which possesses the world’s second-largest transshipment cargo and the seventh-largest container port, to achieve mutual development of the two cities and lead innovation between cities.”

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