Daegu City and North Gyeongsang Province Reunite After Three Years... Exchanges Suspended Since Hong Joonpyo Took Office

Daegu City and North Gyeongsang Province will meet again after three years.

On August 12, Daegu City announced that it will hold a meeting of the "Daegu-Gyeongbuk Joint Cooperation Task Force" at 9:30 a.m. on August 13 at the Gyeongbuk Provincial Office to respond to the new administration.

Daegu City Hall Sangyeok Office

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Attendees from North Gyeongsang Province will include the Director-General for Planning and Coordination, the Bureau of Regional Era Policy, relevant departments, and representatives from the Gyeongbuk Research Institute. From Daegu City, the Director-General for Planning and Coordination, the Administrative Integration Promotion Team, relevant departments, and representatives from the Daegu Policy Research Institute are also expected to attend.

On this day, North Gyeongsang Province and Daegu City will discuss the formation of the task force and joint strategic initiatives.

This meeting was organized out of the need for Daegu and North Gyeongsang Province to develop a systematic joint strategy and actively respond to the government's policy direction, based on their existing administrative cooperation and shared policy demands, as the government is preparing the "Five Hubs, Three Special Zones National Balanced Growth Support Strategy" to break the dominance of the Seoul metropolitan area and promote balanced development centered on ultra-wide regions.

The Daegu-Gyeongbuk joint strategic initiatives consist of 21 tasks across four major sectors.

In the ultra-wide area SOC (social overhead capital) sector, there are seven initiatives: the new airport, the Daegu-Gyeongbuk circular railway network, Yeongilman Port, the east-west transversal railway, the east-west transversal expressway, the Dalbit Railway, and the Daegu Metropolitan Railway (connection to the southeastern region). In the future strategic industries sector, there are eight initiatives: future mobility, AI semiconductors, aerospace and defense, secondary batteries, energy, bio, AI robots, and high value-added textile industries.

In addition, the cultural tourism development sector is condensed into three initiatives: the Nakdong River, Geumho River, and Baekdudaegan, post-APEC, K-content development, and the establishment of an ultra-wide area tourism grid. The social and environmental sector includes talent development, overcoming low birth rates, and achieving carbon neutrality.

Gyeongbuk Provincial Government Building

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Although Daegu City and North Gyeongsang Province had long maintained working-level consultations, regular meetings, and personnel exchanges, these exchanges were suspended after Hong Joonpyo took office as mayor of Daegu in July 2022.

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