Pohang City Improves Living Conditions... Creating a 'City of Elegance Where Anyone Wants to Live'

Greenway Green Network Steadily Expands, Creating Forest Trails and Green Rest Areas

Preparing High-Speed Rail and Road Networks Connecting Pohang Ahead of Daegu-Gyeongbuk Integrated New Airport Opening

Mayor Lee Kang-deok, "Developing Tangi

Pohang City will focus its administrative capabilities next year to create a dignified city where everyone wants to live.

The pedestrian bridge on the Pohang Railway Forest Coexistence Forest Path, completed last October.

Lee Kang-deok, Mayor of Pohang, said, “In the era of local autonomy where regional competitiveness directly translates into national competitiveness, the most important thing is to improve residential conditions that create a livable environment for citizens,” adding, “Next year, we will continue to enhance the quality of life for citizens through policy development that they can feel close to.”

To this end, the city plans to steadily expand the Greenway green network next year, promoting various projects so that citizens can encounter green forest paths anywhere.

Centered around Posco-daero, the city will continue to increase coexistence forest trails and urban forests, connect fragmented urban forest paths, and create green rest areas and various convenience facilities through private park projects.

Additionally, the restoration of Haksan Stream’s ecological river will be completed next year, and the restoration of the four major urban streams will be sequentially promoted to create an eco-friendly urban area where people gather along the waterways.

Along with this, the city will establish a ‘Global Corporate Innovation Park’ equipped with an innovative industrial ecosystem involving universities, large corporations, and startups, the best educational environment, and excellent residential conditions, and will officially begin the redevelopment of the former Pohang Station site in the old downtown area to innovatively improve residential conditions next year.

Following the opening of the SRT bound for Suseo this year, which secured many citizens’ transportation options, the city plans to increase the number of operations to make it even more convenient to use.

In particular, in line with the opening of the Daegu-Gyeongbuk Integrated New Airport, the city is preparing high-speed rail and road networks connecting to Pohang, and plans to complete the Yeongilman Bridge, with a government budget of 135 billion KRW reflected next year, and the Dongbin Bridge currently under construction as scheduled, aiming to complete the economic transportation network as soon as possible.

To enhance the city’s dignity and competitiveness, various policies will also be promoted in education and culture.

To secure creativity and diversity in education and foster regionally tailored talent, the city will pursue designation as an ‘Education Development Special Zone,’ and to strengthen and widely promote Pohang’s capabilities as a cultural city, it will build a municipal museum, a second art museum, and a national science museum.

Bird's-eye view of the National Pohang Specialized Science Museum.

Furthermore, the city will generously support cultural projects that citizens can experience and enjoy by hosting the Korea Reading Festival and the Gyeongbuk Lifelong Learning Expo, and to normalize everyday sports activities, it will continuously expand the National Sports Center, exclusive sports parks for amateur athletes, and gateball and park golf courses, striving to create a sports culture city where all generations can freely enjoy.

Mayor Lee Kang-deok said, “With a sense of mission to create a better future, we will strive to expand high-quality infrastructure in all fields including education, culture, and transportation so that people can live with happiness and pride in Pohang.”

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