First step toward an Active Healthy City
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Busan City took the first step toward becoming an Active Healthy City in concert with the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Korea Health Promotion Foundation.
The Active Healthy City project to reduce Busan's escalating obesity rate and increase citizens’ physical activity is being tried out at Busan Metro Station.
The stairs at the station are decorated with nature images to simulate outdoor hiking while climbing the stairs. It is hoped that this will encourage people to use the stairs instead of the lifts or escalators as a lifestyle exercise.
Images of jumping, long jumping and balancing events are posted on the station poles, platform and ticket machine floor respectively, offering people a chance to exercise anywhere in the station.
Eleven rules for a healthy life are also posted on the wall of the platform, and a video encouraging an active, healthy lifestyle is being screened on the electronic boards in the train and on the platforms of all Busan Metro lines.
In a survey of 201 Busan citizens on the city’s Active Healthy City project, 82.5% agreed with the subject of “Lifestyle Exercise” and 77.6% felt motivated to use the stairs more often when they saw the nature images on the Busan Station stairs.
Busan City plans to extend the Active Healthy City project in the near future.
