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Busan City is promoting pledge projects to realize the vision of the 9th popularly elected city administration, ‘Busan, the maritime capital, the center of great future transformation.’
Busan City has finalized and started implementing action plans for 122 pledge projects to realize the vision of the 9th popularly elected city administration, 'Busan, the maritime capital, the center of future great transformation'.
Busan City announced on the 8th that the pledge tasks presented by the transition committee last June were concreted into four major city goals and 122 detailed projects after review by the pledge advisory and evaluation group.
The four major city goals are ‘a maritime capital that connects the world’, ‘an innovative economic city that opens up the future’, ‘a city of balanced growth where everyone can live’, and ‘a city where everyone is healthy and happy for its citizens’.
Detailed projects include relocation of marine public institutions, timely opening of Gadeokdo New Airport, construction of a marine AI data center, creation of a physical AI and power semiconductor cluster, Busan-style youth new deal, relocation of North Port functions, undergrounding of the Gyeongbu Line, 30/60-minute travel innovation (TRX) between Busan-Ul-Gyeonggi, Busan-style integrated care, completion of a public medical belt, and creation of Asia's top three cruise home ports.
Busan City plans to complete 95 out of 122 detailed projects, or 77.9%, or achieve major goals within the term.
The total project cost is 35.525 trillion won, of which 17.9965 trillion won will be invested during the term. By financial resources, 18.892 trillion won in national funds and 3.2107 trillion won in municipal funds are expected to be used.
Busan City plans to transparently disclose the contents of its pledges and systematically manage the implementation status.
On this day, the action plan will be made public on the city's website, and the final booklet will be published after deliberation by a citizen jury by the end of the year.
The status of pledge implementation is checked semi-annually and execution capacity is improved through evaluation by the Korea Manifesto Implementation Headquarters.
Mayor Jeon Jae-soo said, “The 9th popular election pledge is a promise to the citizens and an action plan to change the future of Busan,” and added, “We will prove it with results one by one.”
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Busan City will publish a final action plan booklet after deliberation by a citizen jury by the end of the year.
Very likely · Within months
Busan City will check the implementation of its pledges semi-annually and receive evaluation from the Korea Manifesto Implementation Headquarters.
Very likely · Within months

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