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Busan Selected as the Metropolitan City with the Highest Number of Top-Rated Regional Self-Sufficiency Centers in 2025

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Busan Metropolitan City Mayor Park Heong-joon announced that in the 2025 performance evaluation of regional self-sufficiency centers conducted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, 10 centers in Busan, including the Haeundae Regional Self-Sufficiency Center, were selected as best or excellent centers.

Out of 18 regional self-sufficiency centers in Busan, 10 were selected, making Busan the city with the highest number of recognized centers among the 16 metropolitan cities and provinces nationwide.
The evaluation of regional self-sufficiency centers is conducted regularly through the Korea Self-Sufficiency Development Institute to assess their business achievements, enhance their capacity, and promote self-sufficiency among participants.

This year’s evaluation was based on performance from January 2023 to December 2024. It assessed a total of 16 indicators, including participant capacity enhancement, project performance, activation of self-sufficiency enterprises, operational expertise of the centers, and community partnerships.

In this evaluation, Buk-gu, Haeundae, and Gijang Self-Sufficiency Centers were selected as best centers, while Dongnae, Busanjin, Saha-Dusong, Yeongdo, Dong-gu, Buk-gu Huimangteo, and Gangseo Self-Sufficiency Centers were selected as excellent centers.

The three best-performing centers received particularly high marks in project performance, self-sufficiency enterprise activation, and participant capability enhancement.

The best-rated centers will each receive an incentive of 20 million KRW, while the seven excellent centers will each be granted 15.19 million KRW.

In addition, in the locally specialized project evaluation conducted alongside the performance assessment, three centers—Haeundae, Dong-gu, and Yeongdo—were named excellent centers, each receiving 7 million KRW in incentives.

Outstanding projects included Dong-gu Self-Sufficiency Center’s “Salad and Farm” smart farming urban agriculture project, Haeundae Self-Sufficiency Center’s “UP-UP Homes” housing improvement project for vulnerable households, and Yeongdo Self-Sufficiency Center’s nutrition support program for foster children and out-of-school youth.

Meanwhile, in June this year, Busan became the first in the nation to launch the “ALL-LIVE” (Olive) self-sufficiency innovation project. The project has established a virtuous cycle in which participants directly produce and consume goods and services, ensuring that fair compensation for production leads back to benefits for consumers.

Through this project, the city provides participating households with ALL-LIVE points worth 100,000 KRW, which can be used to purchase goods and services at “Olive Market,” a self-sufficiency marketplace.
This structure encourages participants to go beyond being policy beneficiaries to become active agents of “good consumption,” raising both engagement and pride.

Jung Tae-gi, Director General of the Social Welfare Bureau, stated, “We will continue to strengthen the capacity of regional self-sufficiency centers to create diverse job opportunities for low-income residents, and we will spare no effort in helping them achieve self-sufficiency and independence.”