Six cities have been designated as the 4th Cultural Cities Aiming to establish a turning point for city growth
Date Dec 13, 2022
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The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism (Minister PARK Bo Gyoon, MCST) designated six regions - Gochang-gun, Dalseong-gun, Yeongwol-gun, Metropolitan City of Ulsan, City of Uijeongbu, and Chilgok-gun - as 4th Cultural Cities (names of the regions in Korean alphabetical order) according to the Regional Culture Promotion Act after deliberations by the Cultural City Deliberation Committee (Head of the Committee: JEONG Gap-yeong, CCDC).
A region is designated as a Cultural City in order to foster sustainable growth and increase citizens’ quality of life by utilizing the unique cultural resources of the region in accordance with the Regional Culture Promotion Act. Therefore, MCST launched the 4th Cultural City Working-Level Review Committee to evaluate the sites and presentations (integrated evaluation) of 16 potential future Cultural Cities. The Deliberation Committee, in turn, evaluated and voted to select a total of six new Cultural Cities.
The 4th Cultural Cities
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Region |
Project Name |
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Gochang-gun |
Culture becomes a mother’s healing hands. Gochang, the city of healing culture |
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Dalseong-gun (Daegu) |
Dalseong residents are Dalseong people, a beneficial cultural city for anyone who comes and goes merrily |
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Yeongwol-gun |
Culture-charging city Yeongwol that lights up with its citizens’ actions |
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City of Ulsan |
Dreaming culture factory, cultural city Ulsan |
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City of Uijeongbu |
The city that remembers the citizens, the citizens who prepare for the future! The city you want to stay in, Uijeongbu |
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Chilgok-gun |
A place for sharing humanistic experiences, cultural city Chilgok |
The sites and presentations (integrated evaluation) were appraised by taking into account the pre-cultural city project results, how the foundation for becoming a cultural city is going to be established, and the effectiveness and future potential of becoming a cultural city. The 4th Cultural Cities will receive a total of KRW 20 billion in funds - KRW 10 billion from the central government and KRW 10 billion from the local governments.
A number of the latest Cultural Cities were losing traction for growth but were very eager to overcome their difficulties and develop a new driver in culture. Among such cities are Yeongwol, Ulsan, and Uijeongbu.
MCST designated a total of 24 Cultural Cities - seven in the first round, five in the second, six in the third, and another six in the fourth - from 2019 to 2022. 104 regional governments put themselves up for appraisal in total, 49 for the fourth, which indicates that many regions were encouraged to create a foundation for citizen-led regional culture. A metropolitan city (Ulsan) and small guns with populations of 50 thousand and under (Yeongwol-gun, Gochang-gun) were designated for the first time in the fourth and latest round of Cultural City designation, which goes to show that there are many more possibilities for fostering regional growth through culture.