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Busan Metropolitan City Attends the “2026 Busan Women’s New Year’s Gathering,” Sharing the Values of Gender Equality

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□ Busan Metropolitan City (Mayor Park Heong-joon) announced that today (16th), at 2:00 p.m. at Grand Moment Youth Hostel, it will exchange New Year’s greetings with Busan’s women’s community through the “2026 Busan Women’s New Year’s Gathering” and share a common understanding of the values of gender equality.

○ The Busan Women’s New Year’s Gathering is held every year to promote harmony and communication within Busan’s women’s community in welcoming the New Year. It is hosted by the Busan Women & Family and Lifelong Education Promotion Institute and co-organized by a consultative body of five women’s organizations.
○ Around 300 people—including leaders of women’s organizations and other key figures in the women’s community—will gather to share New Year’s well-wishes and to share common directions and values toward “Busan, a city of gender equality.”

□ The event will begin with a pre-event program featuring a video on the activities of the consultative body of women’s organizations. The main program will proceed in the following order: ▲Welcome remarks ▲Delivery of a message on practicing gender equality ▲New Year’s address ▲Rice-cake cake cutting and commemorative photo ▲A time of harmony for Busan women.

○ In particular, during the “delivery of a message on practicing gender equality,” attendees will present messages of gender equality and inclusion through a card performance—expressing messages such as “Even if I were born again, Busan is the gender-equal city where I want to live”—thereby strengthening shared empathy and commitment to action for “Busan, a city of gender equality.”

□ Through the Busan Women’s New Year’s Gathering held each year, Busan Metropolitan City plans to continue ongoing communication and cooperation with women’s organizations, working together so that the practice of gender equality in daily life can spread across the broader community.
○ In addition, the city will advance gender-equality policies and initiatives that citizens can tangibly experience, and it will strive to create an urban environment where everyone is respected.

□ Mayor Park Heong-joon is expected to say, “It is meaningful to begin the New Year by gathering with Busan’s women’s community and reflecting on the significance of gender equality,” adding, “To build a society in which citizens can balance work and life and in which the values of gender equality are naturally realized in everyday life, we will continue to pursue policies closely connected to citizens’ lives, including expanding work–life balance and strengthening the care infrastructure. I hope the message we shared today will lead to action in building Busan as a city where everyone is respected.”