Hong Joon-pyo "Daegu-Gyeongbuk Integration, Approval and Special Act Passage Planned Within This Year"
Hong Jun-pyo, Mayor of Daegu, wrote on his social media service (SNS) Facebook account on the 1st regarding the administrative integration of Daegu City and Gyeongbuk Province, "I will push to obtain approval from the city and provincial councils within this year and to have the special integration law passed."
He also stated, "I will push to have only one Daegu-Gyeongbuk Special Mayor elected in the June 2026 local elections."
He emphasized, "The administrative integration of Daegu and Gyeongbuk will be the start of a great innovation that advances the three-tier local administrative organization of city/county, province, and nation, which has been the foundation of the Republic of Korea for the past 100 years, into a two-tier administrative system of local governments and the nation."
He continued, "The function of the province (do) is to support and supervise cities and counties, but now that the whole country has entered an era where travel takes half a day and real-time communication is possible, the plan is to abolish provinces, consolidate the entire country, and create about 40 large and small local governments, forming a two-tier administrative organization with the nation. This pilot project is the concept of the Daegu-Gyeongbuk Integrated Special City."
Mayor Hong said, "The Daegu-Gyeongbuk Special City will become the second-largest city on the Korean Peninsula, and the Republic of Korea will develop centered on Seoul and Daegu," adding, "Stimulated by this, Gwangju-Jeonnam, Daejeon-Chungnam-Chungbuk-Sejong, and Busan-Gyeongnam-Ulsan will also pursue integration, enabling each region to develop into a regional mega-city."
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Mayor Hong and Lee Cheol-woo, Governor of Gyeongbuk Province, are actively working on administrative integration. They have launched a task force (TF) to specify the details and schedule of the integration. On the 4th, they will hold a four-party meeting with Lee Sang-min, Minister of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, and Woo Dong-gi, Chairman of the Local Era Committee, to discuss the direction of the integration and government-level support measures.
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