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Busan Metropolitan City and Citizens Shape the Future of “Maritime Capital Busan” Together

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Busan Metropolitan City announced that Mayor Chun Jae-soo will host the first Busan Town Hall Meeting at 2:00 p.m. today, September 14, in the Grand Ballroom of ASTI Hotel Busan in Dong-gu under the slogan “Building Maritime Capital Busan Together with Citizens.”

Under the theme “Busan’s Future: Finding Answers in the Sea,” the event will bring together approximately 150 participants, including about 50 maritime experts and field professionals and around 100 citizens selected through an open recruitment process.

The town hall meeting will provide an opportunity to discuss Busan’s future around five major policy agendas: becoming a leading city for national maritime policy, building a global maritime business ecosystem, strengthening global shipping and logistics competitiveness, fostering future-oriented new maritime industries, and becoming a leading city for Arctic shipping routes.

Mayor Chun Jae-soo will first present Busan’s vision and plans for becoming a maritime capital under the theme “Maritime Capital Busan: Envisioning the Future.”

Mayor Chun is expected to outline a plan to move beyond the excessive concentration of growth in the Seoul metropolitan area and create a new growth axis for the Republic of Korea. The plan will position the era of Arctic shipping routes as a new opportunity for Busan to make a major leap forward, concentrate core maritime functions in the city, and connect the industrial capabilities of the southeastern region to develop a “maritime capital region” as a new growth engine for the country.

Maritime experts and field professionals will then present policy priorities and development directions from an on-the-ground perspective under the theme “Maritime Capital Busan: Proposals from the Field.”

In the latter part of the event, citizens and the mayor will communicate directly for 50 minutes through a session titled “Citizens Ask, the Mayor Answers.”

The city will gather a wide range of public input through advance questions submitted during the citizen participation application process, questions raised on site, and real-time comments posted during the live broadcast on the city’s website. The opinions and policy proposals presented will be reviewed by the relevant departments and actively reflected in future policies.

Mayor Chun Jae-soo said, “Ultimately, the driving force behind realizing Busan as the maritime capital of the Republic of Korea comes from its citizens. Today, I will listen directly to proposals from experts and field professionals as well as the voices of our citizens, and together we will find solutions and build ‘Maritime Capital Busan,’ a center of transformative change for the future.”

Beginning with the maritime sector, Busan Metropolitan City plans to hold a series of Busan Town Hall Meetings on major municipal issues, continuously expanding opportunities for communication through which the city and its citizens can develop policies and seek solutions together.