Mokpo City Selected as an 'Excellent City' for Two Consecutive Years in Cultural City Development Project

Spreading the Cultural Value of Yeyang... Establishing the Foundation as a Cultural Hub in the Southwestern Region

Mokpo City announced on the 18th that it was selected as an ‘Excellent City’ for two consecutive years in the 2023 Cultural City Development Project performance evaluation conducted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

The Cultural City Development Project is a government-funded initiative that supports local residents' cultural activities by utilizing the region's unique cultural assets, promotes urban regeneration, and enables the region to create its own city brand.

Mokpo Cultural City Center Exterior [Photo by Mokpo City]

Designated as the 3rd statutory cultural city in 2022, Mokpo City operated 22 local cultural projects under the vision of ‘Mokpo, a New Open Port Cultural Harbor City,’ including citizen governance (Cultural Passbook), cultural activity support projects (Kkomjirak Laboratory), and cultural talent development projects (Cultural Gaetmul School), achieving positive evaluations and being selected as an excellent city in 2023.

In 2023, under the slogan ‘Connecting the City. Mokpo, a Cultural Harbor City,’ Mokpo established a cultural and artistic cooperation system in the southwestern region including Gangjin, Haenam, Sinan, and Yeongam, spreading the cultural value of Ye-hyang (藝鄕) and laying the foundation as a cultural hub in the southwest region.

Additionally, the city improved citizens’ cultural accessibility by creating nine cultural lounges at administrative welfare centers.

Mayor Park Hong-ryul stated, “Entering the third year as a statutory cultural city, this year we will continue to strengthen cultural activities through cultural base spaces and strive to create a distinctive brand unique to Mokpo.”

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