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Busan Metropolitan City Visits Haeundae-gu and Gijang-gun to Address Everyday Concerns and Improve Residents' Quality of Life

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Busan Metropolitan City (Mayor Chun Jae-soo) announced that it will conduct field visits to Haeundae-gu and Gijang-gun today (October 15) as the fourth round of "Transforming Everyday Life Across Busan," a community engagement project covering all 206 eup, myeon, and dong administrative areas under the ninth popularly elected municipal administration.

The initiative is a community-focused engagement project in which the mayor personally visits locations where residents face everyday difficulties, listens to their concerns, and presents solutions developed jointly with district and county authorities and relevant city departments.

The project is particularly significant because it extends the administration's commitment, emphasized since the mayor took office, to "finding answers alongside citizens and delivering changes they can feel" to every corner of the city's 206 eup, myeon, and dong administrative areas. It also aims to establish a permanent framework for cooperation between the city and district and county authorities to resolve local issues.

Beginning with visits to Dong-gu and Jung-gu on September 15, the city will have completed field visits to eight of its 16 districts and counties following today's schedule, marking the halfway point of the community engagement project.

Today (October 15), Mayor Chun will visit sites in Haeundae-gu and Gijang-gun alongside Haeundae-gu Mayor Kim Seong-su and Gijang-gun Mayor Woo Seong-bin to hear directly from residents about their concerns.

In Haeundae-gu, the mayor will first visit the proposed intercity bus stop site near Jung-dong Station, the Wondong Interchange (IC) intersection, and Byeolbaragi Park. The visits will focus on local projects that can make a tangible difference in residents' daily lives, including the construction of facilities for the Haeundae Intercity Bus Stop, the development of a pedestrian walkway connecting Hyundai Green Apartment Complex to the Wondong IC intersection, and the renovation of children's play areas.

In Gijang-gun, the mayor will visit the Gijang Market bus stop, the sidewalk north of Gijang Market, and Manhwacheon Stream. He will review issues directly affecting residents' convenience, including revitalizing local commerce by improving the traditional market environment, preventing river-related disasters, and enhancing pedestrian conditions. He will also listen to the concerns of local small business owners.

At each location, Mayor Chun will hear directly from residents and relevant stakeholders and discuss solutions to local issues with the district and county mayors. He is also expected to reaffirm the city's commitment to working closely with district and county authorities to promptly implement necessary projects addressing the inconveniences identified during the visits and to make every effort to provide the required budgetary support.

Finally, Mayor Chun will join the Gijang-gun Mayor and local residents for a "Community Lunch with Citizens" at Gamasot Saengbokjip, a government-designated Good Price Establishment near Gijang Market, where he will hear firsthand accounts from small business owners and residents.

Gamasot Saengbokjip, a restaurant specializing in pufferfish dishes that opened 32 years ago, is widely cherished by local residents for its generosity toward neighbors in need, offering warmth and compassion as comforting as the pufferfish soup simmering in its traditional iron cauldrons.

The restaurant has earned particular admiration for the charitable efforts of its owner, Sim Mi-rye, and her spouse. Since 2002, the couple has provided warm meals, including soup and boiled meat, to the Gijang Senior Welfare Center. They have also personally prepared approximately 70 lunchboxes containing four side dishes each week and delivered them to disadvantaged neighbors. In recognition of these longstanding acts of kindness, Mayor Chun plans to present the restaurant owner with a specially commissioned plaque from Busan Metropolitan City expressing appreciation and support for the Good Price Establishment.

Mayor Chun Jae-soo is expected to say, "We will turn the opinions we hear directly from residents into tangible improvements in their everyday lives."

He will add, "Throughout my four-year term, I will work even harder to visit every corner of all 206 eup, myeon, and dong administrative areas, listen to residents' voices, and remain steadfast in my commitment to an administration that responds to their needs and delivers results."