Busan City Holds '15-Minute City Advancement Promotion Report Meeting' ... Discusses Development Expansion Strategies

Report Meeting Hosted by Mayor Park Hyung-jun at Modern Art Museum on 12th at 2:30 PM

Improving Program Quality and Enhancing Citizen Experience Alongside Creation of Representative Living Zones

Mayor Park: "Core of 15-Minute City is Buildin

On the 12th at 2:30 PM, Busan City will hold the ‘15-Minute City Advancement Promotion Report Meeting’ at the Busan Museum of Modern Art, chaired by Mayor Park Hyung-jun, to discuss strategies for expanding the creation of 15-minute cities.

The meeting will be attended by about 25 key officials including Mayor Park Hyung-jun, the Deputy Mayor for Administration, the Deputy Mayor for Economy, the Chief Policy Officer, the President of the Busan Research Institute, private experts from various fields, and the Mayor of Saha District.

In particular, by holding this report meeting at the Museum of Modern Art, a cultural hub representing the western Busan area, the city reinforces its commitment to achieving balanced development between the eastern and western regions through the creation of 15-minute cities, ensuring that the western area is not neglected in fields such as culture and education.

After the 15-Minute City Advancement Promotion Report Meeting, participants will visit the Saha Fire Station Safety Experience Center (Deullaknallak), the second Happy Challenge target site, to review progress and strategies and discuss solutions to derive the optimal plan.

The 15-minute city concept goes beyond everyday convenience; it embodies the values and philosophy of Busan’s city administration in response to the digital transformation and global climate crisis. Its ultimate goal is to create a sustainable citizen happiness city through community recovery and revitalization, fostering learning and self-realization within a warm community.

So far, the city has achieved meaningful results by establishing multi-layered plans, initiating representative living zone development projects, and implementing unit tasks such as Deullaknallak, laying the foundation for a 15-minute city in Busan. With the preparation of the promotion system complete, it is now time for the 15-minute city to deeply take root among citizens.

Accordingly, to enhance policy awareness and spread the values and philosophy of the 15-minute city throughout the city, a forum was organized where not only key officials including Mayor Park Hyung-jun but also private experts from various fields participate to collectively consider the advancement of the 15-minute city.

Especially since expanding communication and exchange spaces for citizens and discovering and spreading excellent programs to fill these spaces are important, the meeting will focus on identifying and selecting various anchor facilities scattered across the region by field, and intensively discuss ways to advance programs to foster good relationships and their expansion.

Since August, the city has been preparing advancement plans by forming sectoral consultative bodies with private experts, discovering tasks, and supplementing content through inspection meetings chaired by the Deputy Mayor.

At today’s meeting, in-depth discussions will be held on the advancement plans for 12 core anchor facilities and programs across three major fields: education and start-ups, welfare and health, and culture and sports. Representative programs and anchor facilities will be finalized, and strategic promotion, public-private consultative bodies, and a dedicated task force (TF) will be used to continuously monitor implementation and maintain quality for phased expansion.

Furthermore, to ensure that these facilities and programs are properly delivered to citizens, the city plans to produce and distribute online and offline living zone maps, rebrand the identity (BI renewal), and create promotional videos for public outreach.

Starting with today’s meeting, the city will organize the promotion system to successfully complete the advancement of the 15-minute city, thoroughly checking everything from improving the quality of representative programs to promotion strategies aimed at raising citizen awareness.

In particular, Mayor Park Hyung-jun stated, “Despite various efforts by the city, the gap between eastern and western Busan has not been resolved,” and added, “To close the east-west gap, it is necessary to focus on the western Busan area and have a dedicated person to intensively address this issue. I hope Deputy Mayor for Economy Lee Sung-kwon will take the lead in this role.”

Mayor Park Hyung-jun emphasized, “The core of the 15-minute city is to create a city where neighbors and people want to live, and to achieve this, we must create an urban environment where good relationships arise throughout the city.” He continued, “The city has made many efforts in supplying foundational facilities to expand these good relationships. Now, along with the development of representative living zones, we will advance policies so that the values and philosophy of the 15-minute city permeate every neighborhood and a warm community can be restored.”

Busan City Hall.

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