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Busan Metropolitan City to Hold “New Year Youth Policy Dialogue Meeting” with Local University Students

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Busan Metropolitan City (Mayor Park Heong-joon) announced that it will hold the “New Year Youth Policy Dialogue Meeting” with local university students on Friday, January 2, at 12:00 p.m., at a brunch café in Jeonpo-dong.

The meeting is designed to open direct communication with local university students at the start of the new year, share the City’s direction for youth policies, and listen to voices from the field.

The event will be held at a brunch café in Jeonpo-dong, an area popular among young people. The City will invite university students who are members of the Busan Association of University Student Council Presidents, introduce youth policies to be implemented in the new year, and gather a wide range of opinions from the participants.

Fifteen student council representatives from eight universities in Busan—Kyungsung University, Pukyong National University, Korea Maritime and Ocean University, Tongmyong University, Dongseo University, Dong-A University, Catholic University of Pusan, and Pusan National University—will attend and freely exchange views on policies that young people experience most directly, including employment and entrepreneurship, housing, and other related issues.

In particular, this meeting will be the first official communication session with the Busan Association of University Student Council Presidents since the association was re-established last October. The City expects the meeting to be meaningful in that it highlights young people not only as beneficiaries of policy support but also as key partners in municipal administration.

At the meeting, Busan Metropolitan City will share information on the expansion of its “Work Experience Support” program, which aims to provide young people with more opportunities for practical workplace experience, as well as its newly launched youth financial education initiative. In addition, participants will exchange views on RISE (Regional Innovation System & Education) policies, including the Field Campus initiative launched last year. The initiative is being promoted as Busan’s leading model for an open industry–academia collaboration system under the Busan-style RISE framework, which aims to connect investment attraction and corporate hiring with university talent development across the region.

Busan Metropolitan City plans to actively reflect the suggestions and opinions raised at the meeting in future youth policy planning and improvement processes. The City will also continue to expand field-centered policies that young people can genuinely experience and benefit from.

Mayor Park Heong-joon is expected to say, “Policies related to the quality of life for young people, who will lead Busan’s future, will continue to expand in coverage and improve in quality,” adding, “We will closely examine what policies young people truly need and support them in all aspects of their lives so that Busan becomes a city where they want to stay and work.”