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Busan Youth to Propose Youth Policies Directly: Recruiting Participants for the 2026 Busan Youth Policy Network

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Busan Metropolitan City, led by Mayor Park Heong-joon, announced that it will publicly recruit 75 young people to participate in the 2026 Busan Youth Policy Network (hereinafter “Cheongjeongnet”) from today (the 3rd) through February 13, in order to expand youth participation in City administration and foster youth-led policy formation.

Cheongjeongnet is a youth-participation policy consultative body (governance) through which young people communicate with the City to identify and propose policy agendas firsthand and to promote youth policies.

To date, Cheongjeongnet has contributed to improving the quality of life for young people and enhancing policy effectiveness by generating various policy proposals from a youth perspective and by accumulating young people’s experience in participating in City administration.

Any young person aged 18 to 39 who lives in Busan or is active in Busan may apply to participate in Cheongjeongnet.

Selected participants will carry out activities through December of this year to propose new policies and develop improvement measures for existing policies across five divisions: jobs, housing, culture and arts, tourism, and policy promotion.

Beginning with an orientation in March, participants will take part in a range of programs, including training on participating in City administration, policy workshops, youth policy roundtables, site visits, and networking days. In September, participants plan to officially submit to the City the policies developed by each division through a policy proposal session.

In particular, reflecting youth demand, the City has newly formed a tourism division this year, aligned with Busan’s specialized local industry. In addition, the City has further strengthened the operating model to enhance the effectiveness of policy proposals and deepen the participation experience.

To improve the completeness of policy proposals, the City will connect expert advisory support (consulting) from the early agenda-discovery stage, prior to the policy proposal drafting stage.

In addition, the City clarified the operating direction of the policy promotion division by shifting it from a focus on autonomous activities to a task-oriented approach that carries out promotion of the City’s youth policies and Cheongjeongnet activities.

Young people who wish to participate in Cheongjeongnet may apply online through the Busan Youth Platform (young.busan.go.kr).

Further details about recruitment can be found on the Busan Youth Platform, or by contacting the Cheongjeongnet Secretariat at 051-241-7871.

Selection will be conducted based on submitted documents, taking into account balance in age, gender, and division assignment. Final selection results will be individually notified on February 25.

Kim Gwi-ok, Assistant Mayor of the Youth-Industry-Academia Bureau, said, “Cheongjeongnet is a participatory policy consultative body where young people go beyond simply sharing opinions and instead co-create policies together,” adding, “This year, we will actively support young people so that their ideas can be translated into concrete policies by linking expert advisory support and strengthening division operations.”