Changwon Special City Signs Public-Private Agreement for a Sustainable Cultural City

On the afternoon of the 11th, Changwon Special City in Gyeongnam held a public-private cooperation agreement ceremony in the 3rd conference room of the city hall to secure the sustainability of Changwon as a cultural city.

At the ceremony, a total of nine businesses and organizations participated, including the Changwon Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Hanwha Changwon Plant, Hanwha Precision Machinery, Muhak, Korea Yanase, Sinhwa Steel, BNK Gyeongnam Bank, Gyeongnam Mecenat Association, and Changwon Cultural Foundation, to mutually cooperate in supporting and promoting investment in the Changwon cultural city project.

Changwon Special City has signed a public-private agreement for a sustainable cultural city, Changwon.

The main contents of the agreement include ▲ linkage and cooperation between local community support projects and cultural city projects promoted by each business (organization) ▲ financial support for local cultural development and provision of idle spaces owned by companies ▲ discussion of mutual cooperation plans for the sustainable promotion of the cultural city in the future.

Mayor Hong Nam-pyo said, “Today’s agreement ceremony is a new challenge to create a cultural ecosystem evolving into our city’s unique local cultural content. It is the first step toward a future city created together. I ask for your continued efforts so that culture and arts can be at the center, leading the city’s growth and development through more participation and cooperation.”

Changwon Special City has been promoting projects as a preliminary cultural city for two years, with citizens, the Cultural City Support Center, and the administration working together since last year. To be officially designated as a cultural city, the final version of the Changwon Cultural City Creation Plan will be submitted by the end of August, followed by an integrated (on-site and presentation) evaluation by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s on-site evaluation team in September, with the final announcement scheduled for October.