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Busan Metropolitan City Sends Postcards Filled with Love, Health, and Happiness via Slow Mailbox

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Busan Metropolitan City (Mayor Park Heong-joon) announced that postcards submitted to the "Slow Mailbox to My Family," which was operated in December last year, will be delivered this month.

From December 23 to 27 last year, the city held a postcard-sending event through the Slow Mailbox as part of a side event during the "Happiness is Children, Busan" Children’s Drawing Contest Exhibition at the connecting passage of City Hall Station on Busan Metro Line 1.
Participants included citizens commuting between City Hall and the metro, children visiting the City Hall, domestic tourists, and international students.

Unlike ordinary mailboxes that deliver letters within a few days, the "Slow Mailbox" sends postcards to the written address after six months. This allowed citizens and children, who are accustomed to speed, to experience the sentimentality of handwritten letters and create lasting memories through “slowness.”

Youth and children, used to instant messaging through social media and mobile texts, found the Slow Mailbox—taking six months for delivery—fascinating.

Although participants were not used to writing letters by hand—resulting in smudged pen marks and unrefined writing—they sincerely decorated their postcards with messages and drawings and handwrote the recipient's address, creating a unique and heartfelt experience.

The most frequently appearing words on the postcards were:
• Love – 36%
• Health – 24%
• Happiness – 18%
Followed by:
• Family – 7%
• Studies – 6%
• Employment – 5%

Messages of love and gratitude addressed to parents, children, and grandchildren, along with bright and encouraging notes, will now be delivered as they were written on that day.

Meanwhile, Busan Metropolitan City is preparing a range of events for families, youth, and children in the second half of the year, including:
• Busan Children’s Expo (August)
• Citizen Health Expo (September)
• The 30th Geumryeonsan Festival (September)
• The 2nd “Happiness is Children, Busan” (October)
• Academy for Families with Multiple Children (October)

Park Seol-yeon, Director General of the Women and Family Affairs Bureau, stated, “We hope the heartfelt messages carefully written by citizens last year and placed into the Slow Mailbox will be delivered well,” adding, “Busan Metropolitan City continues to implement various marriage, childbirth, and parenting support policies, including the Busan-style Integrated Childcare Project ‘Cherished Like You.’ As of April this year, the number of births increased by 7.8% compared to the previous year, showing a positive trend. We will continue to strive to make Busan a city where it is good to give birth and raise children.”