Gamcheon Cultural Village in Saha-gu won the Educating Cities’ Award
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The photo was taken after the Educating Cities’ Award ceremony at the 14th IAEC Congress on June 4, 2016. The mayor of Saha-gu Office is in the middle of the photo.
The regeneration of Gamcheon into a cultural village of Saha-gu won the Educating Cities’ Award.
Saha-gu (The Republic of Korea), Espoo (Finland) and L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (Spain) received the Educating Cities’ Award for good practices on living better together in our cities on June 4, 2016 during the 14th IAEC Congress held in Rosario.
The Mayor of Saha-gu, Mr. Kyung-Hoon Lee, presented the Gamcheon Cultural District: a creative project that regenerated an underprivileged area into a cultural neighborhood; a project that had the participation of its people and strengthened their sense of belonging within their community.
IAEC (International Association of Educating Cities) selected three projects among the entries of 57 projects from 45 cities around the world for the Award. Founded in 1994, the International Association of Educating Cities (IAEC) is a non-profit Association with 471 member cities in 36 countries on all continents.
Gamcheon was refuge to many people fleeing to Busan during the Korean War. The Gamcheon Cultural Village embraces the joys and sorrows of the Korean War refugees and modern history of Busan. The creative urban regeneration project started in 2010 and the success of the project attracts 1,400,000 Korean and foreign tourists to the village annually.
