Busan City Expands Senior Complex Cultural Spaces in 15-Minute City Policy Contest Project

Grand Opening Ceremony at 2 PM on the 26th, Dongnae-gu Senior Welfare Center Renovated

Busan City will hold the opening ceremony of the ‘Dongnae-gu Senior Welfare Center Complex Cultural Space,’ completed through the ‘15-Minute City Policy Contest Project,’ at 2 p.m. on the 26th.

Elderly Complex Cultural Space at Dongnae-gu Senior Welfare Center.

The event will be attended by about 100 people including city officials, Dongnae-gu representatives, and local residents, and will proceed in the order of a commemorative ceremony, ribbon cutting (tape cutting), and facility tour.

The ‘Dongnae-gu Senior Welfare Center Complex Cultural Space’ was newly renovated as a multipurpose shared space for seniors by securing additional space using the existing site and refurbishing outdated facilities. This is a result model of the 15-Minute City Policy Contest Project responding to the super-aged society, aimed at expanding comprehensive support (anchor) facilities for senior culture and leisure.

Although Dongnae-gu has the smallest senior welfare center size in the city relative to its population aged 65 and over, about 650 seniors use the Dongnae-gu Senior Welfare Center daily on flat land near the urban railway, accommodating users from all over Busan.

Accordingly, Dongnae-gu applied for the 15-Minute City Policy Contest Project through a demand survey for necessary infrastructure centered on local seniors and public-private-senior citizen groups.

The city highly evaluated the age-friendly facility improvement policy responding to the increase in the senior population of about 8,700 households, including residents of nearby apartments and the Oncheon 4 District scheduled to move in this year, and finally selected it as a contest project in June 2022.

Starting detailed design in October 2022 and beginning full-scale construction in May 2023, Dongnae-gu expanded and remodeled a four-story building including an open book cafe, smart health room, smart informatization room, and shared room, and will open it to residents from the 26th.

Mayor Park Hyung-jun stated, “Building infrastructure linked to the 15-Minute City and revitalizing cultural and leisure communities are important requirements for a happy city to shift the paradigm of a super-aged society,” adding, “We will continue to accelerate projects to expand integrated community spaces for seniors reflecting various welfare services within living areas.”