‘Welfare Busan’ … Busan Social Welfare Comprehensive Center and Busan Social Service Institute Open
Published 18 Apr.2023 08:22(KST)
Updated 07 Aug.2025 15:16(KST)
On the 18th at 2:30 PM, Busan City will hold an opening ceremony for the ‘Busan Social Welfare Comprehensive Center,’ which will serve as a welfare control tower, and the ‘Busan Social Service Institute,’ established by converting the Busan Welfare Development Institute to improve public institution efficiency, in Nakmin-dong, Dongnae-gu.
About 100 guests, including Mayor Park Hyung-jun, National Assembly member Kim Hee-gon, City Council Chairman Ahn Sung-min, Health and Welfare Ministry policy officer Kim Hye-jin, and representatives from social welfare organizations, are expected to attend the ceremony to celebrate the opening.
Busan City recognized that social welfare organizations’ offices and operational facilities were scattered in cramped spaces, limiting social welfare-related education and various activities, and has been promoting the construction of a stable and continuously usable ‘Social Welfare Comprehensive Center.’
After confirming the construction site in 2016 and completing construction in January 2023, the Busan Social Welfare Comprehensive Center, housing 22 organizations including the Busan Social Service Institute, will be operated for three years by a consortium of the Busan Social Service Institute and the Busan Metropolitan City Social Welfare Council.
In particular, the center will support strengthening networks among private social welfare organizations and establish governance as a communication channel for cooperation between the private and public sectors, serving as a control tower and focal point for welfare in ‘Welfare Busan.’
This is receiving significant attention as a nationwide model case from welfare-related organizations in other metropolitan and regional cities.
The center has a total floor area of 4,655.64㎡ and consists of ▲1st floor: comprehensive counseling and operation offices, multipurpose room (planned as a children’s complex cultural space), caf? space ▲2nd floor: auditorium, lecture rooms, meeting rooms, offices, multipurpose room ▲3rd floor: computer training room, lecture rooms, offices, male and female lounges ▲4th floor: offices ▲5th floor: offices, shared storage, meeting rooms ▲6th floor: outdoor deck and rooftop.
Since the Public Institution Innovation Direction for the 8th elected term was announced by the Public Institution Pledge Promotion Planning Group in August last year, the city has been promoting public institution efficiency measures to resolve inefficiencies caused by overlapping and similar functions of public institutions. Following the completion of the first task, the integration of research functions at the Busan Institute, on March 31, the second task, the establishment of the ‘Busan Social Service Institute,’ has been completed.
The recently completed task of establishing the ‘Busan Social Service Institute’ aims to build a dense welfare service system by converting the Busan Welfare Development Institute into the Busan Social Service Institute, shifting from a research-centered to a project execution-focused organization to support the improvement of social service quality in the region and discover new services.
The city has been working on the establishment of the Busan Social Service Institute by securing selection in the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s social service institute public project, enacting related ordinances, revising regulations, and recruiting personnel.
The Busan Social Service Institute is located on the 4th floor of the Busan Social Welfare Comprehensive Center. With this establishment, it is expected to have effects such as ▲resolving blind spots through gap care and life-type social service support responding to urgent care gaps ▲developing and disseminating converged care services that add various services to simple care ▲strengthening the capacity of small-scale private institutions through consulting for new service providers and support for scaling and organizing.
It is especially expected to greatly contribute to the creation of a happy community in Busan by expanding social service targets, improving service quality, resolving blind spots, and innovating and advancing demand-tailored social services.
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