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Busan Metropolitan City Holds First Meeting After Forming Task Force to Identify Busan–Ulsan–Gyeongnam (Bu-Ul-Gyeong) Mega-Regional Cooperation Projects

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Busan Metropolitan City announced that the Bu-Ul-Gyeong Mega-Regional Economic Alliance Promotion Headquarters will hold the first meeting of the “Task Force for Identifying Bu-Ul-Gyeong Mega-Regional Cooperation Projects” today (April 3) at 10:30 a.m. in the conference room on the 19th floor of the National Pension Service Busan Regional Headquarters.

The meeting will be attended by working-level officials from relevant organizations in Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongsangnam-do, as well as representatives from research institutes, technoparks, and regional industry promotion agencies from each city and province, who will discuss the direction for identifying mega-regional cooperation projects and the operation plan of the task force.

Key agenda items include ▲establishing the operational direction and roles of the task force ▲plans for identifying mega-regional cooperation projects in preparation for the establishment of the mega-regional special account ▲plans for identifying mega-regional cooperation projects linked to the National Growth Fund.

In particular, the meeting will include a session to directly hear opinions from officials in Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongsangnam-do regarding the “5 Poles and 3 Special Zones” growth engines and the National Growth Fund, which are key policy instruments of the government’s balanced national growth strategy.

Through this, the participants plan to share ideas for mega-regional cooperation projects that reflect the conditions and characteristics of each city and province, and to jointly review the potential for linking these projects with the “5 Poles and 3 Special Zones” growth engines and the National Growth Fund initiatives.

The “Task Force for Identifying Bu-Ul-Gyeong Mega-Regional Cooperation Projects” was established to share institutional trends related to mega-regional cooperation and to jointly explore project tasks and cooperation measures that can be linked to economic and living zones.

The task force will operate from March 2026 until the finalization of the government budget, with an intensive project discovery period set from March to June to focus on identifying mega-regional cooperation projects in the Bu-Ul-Gyeong region.

Lee Oh-sun, Head of the Bu-Ul-Gyeong Mega-Regional Economic Alliance Promotion Headquarters, stated, “Identifying mega-regional cooperation projects is a highly important task for creating economic synergy in the region and achieving balanced national development,” adding, “We will do our utmost to identify systematic cooperation projects that reflect the characteristics of the Bu-Ul-Gyeong region through close collaboration with relevant organizations.”