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Busan Becomes Sister City to Fukuoka and Chicago

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Busan Metropolitan City will become a sister city to Fukuoka in Japan and Chicago in the United States.

Busan stated on January 2 that the city will hold a ceremonies for sister city affiliations to Fukuoka and Chicago next month. It plans to hold the contract ceremony with Fukuoka in Busan from February 3 to February 5. With Chicago, the ceremony will be held in Chicago at the end of February.

Once those two countries confirm the contracts of the sister cities, Busan will be the first to affiliate with two cities in each country. Busan became a sister city to Shimonoseki, Japan in 1976 and to Los Angeles, USA in 1967. The Ministry of Government Affairs and Home Affairs has restricted sister city relationships to two cities in one nation and business policies of sister city procedures is revised as some increase might be there, if there are some special cases. Prior to this there was a rule of only one city in a country.

In the case of Fukuoka, the city concluded a promise entitled, ‘City of administration interchange’ in 1989 and briskly exchanged various sectors including economy, culture, tourism and sports for seventeen years. When Busan made an agreement with Shimonoseki there was some delay at first in concluding the contract. Taking this opportunity, Fukuoka is studying establishing a residential office for employees of the city in Busan.

Chicago has a record of making visits and friendly relations protocol among staff in charge last November. There are approximately one hundred thousand Koreans living there. Busan Dong-seo University and Chicago State University affiliated interchanges in 2005 and recently both cities are actively exchanging.

 

The source of news : The Busanilbo  2007. 01.03. 10:17