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Busan Metropolitan City and Citizens Explore Ways to Build “Busan, a City Where Culture Is a Basic Right”

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Busan Metropolitan City, led by Mayor Chun Jae-soo, announced that it will hold a Culture Town Hall Meeting under the slogan “Busan, a City Where Culture Is a Basic Right” today, September 30, at 2:30 p.m. in the Grand Conference Room on the first floor of Busan City Hall.

Held under the theme “Busan, a City Where Culture Is a Basic Right: Citizens Ask, Busan Answers,” the event will bring together approximately 100 participants, including experts in culture and the arts and members of the public.

The town hall meeting has been organized to share the cultural and arts policy vision of the 9th popularly elected administration and directly hear citizens’ views on cultural issues. The event will be divided into Part 1, a thematic discussion on the administration’s cultural and arts policies, and Part 2, a discussion of current issues in the cultural sector.

In Part 1, Mayor Chun Jae-soo will present “Busan, a City Where Culture Is a Basic Right” as the central direction of the administration’s cultural policy, based on the principle that “culture is a fundamental right of citizens” and should serve as a basic principle of city governance. He will also present plans to establish a self-sustaining cultural ecosystem in which creation, distribution, enjoyment, and reinvestment form a virtuous cycle, along with five major commitments in the cultural and arts sector to be prioritized during his term.

In particular, the mayor will introduce a range of views gathered from the field and outline ways to realize basic cultural rights guaranteed to everyone, including citizens’ right to enjoy culture, artists’ right to create, young people’s right to work, and cultural stakeholders’ right to participate.

Building on these principles, the city will announce five commitments aimed at fostering a healthy local cultural and arts ecosystem. They are: increasing cultural and arts support programs to KRW 10 billion; creating a multi-purpose cultural exhibition space at North Port; launching the “Munhwa Masil” project, a comprehensive overhaul of the community culture system that will make use of private facilities such as cafes as cultural venues; establishing a KRW 100 billion cultural and arts fund to serve as a catalyst for revitalizing the cultural industry; and creating “Platform 051” as a new channel connecting cultural stakeholders.

The head of the Busan Cultural Foundation will then explain various cultural support policies for local artists, followed by an open discussion with citizens on Busan’s cultural and arts policies, chaired by the mayor.

In Part 2, the city will explain the deliberative process undertaken to date on current cultural issues, after which citizens will have an opportunity to ask questions and receive direct answers from the mayor.

The city also plans to actively incorporate into municipal policy the various proposals and opinions submitted through citizens’ questions and real-time comments on the city’s live-streaming webpage at https://www.busan.go.kr/livebusan, following review by the relevant departments.

Mayor Chun Jae-soo said, “Through this town hall meeting, we will listen directly to citizens, work together to find solutions, and make Busan a city where everyone can freely enjoy culture in everyday life.”

He added, “We will continue to listen closely to the diverse views of citizens on major municipal issues and maintain active communication with the public.”