Busan and Jeju Join Hands for 'People and Happiness'... 15-Minute City Alliance Agreement

Pursuing a People-Centered, Sustainable, and Happy City Development

Busan and Jeju have joined hands to pursue a people-centered happy city through the ‘15-minute city’ alliance.

The Busan Metropolitan City (Mayor Park Hyung-joon) announced on the 20th at 2 p.m. that it signed a ‘15-minute City Alliance Business Agreement’ with Jeju Special Self-Governing Province (Governor Oh Young-hoon) at the International Protocol Room of Busan City Hall to create a people-centered, sustainable, and happy city.

Mayor Park Hyung-joon and Governor Oh Young-hoon attended the signing ceremony and signed the agreement.

This agreement was made to realize carbon neutrality and sustainable development through mutual cooperation on the ‘15-minute city’ policy and to jointly develop a people-centered city where citizens are happy.

On the 20th at 2 p.m., Park Hyung-jun, Mayor of Busan, and Oh Young-hoon, Governor of Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, along with officials from the two local governments, signed the "15-Minute City Alliance Agreement" for creating a people-centered, sustainable, and happy city at the International Protocol Room of Busan City Hall.

Since 2022, Busan and Jeju have formed a consensus on the ‘15-minute city’ as a solution for a ‘people-centered sustainable happy city’ and have made continuous efforts for cooperation, including holding policy briefings, leading to this agreement.

Since announcing the vision and strategy for the 15-minute city in 2022, Busan has been implementing policies in various fields such as ‘Representative Living Zones,’ policy contests, ‘Vision Tours,’ ‘Deullaknallak,’ and the ‘Haha Center.’ The representative model, the ‘Happy Challenge Dangam-Gaegum Zone Project,’ was completed earlier this month.

Jeju Province also completed the basic plan and pilot district master plan for the creation of the ‘15-minute City Jeju’ in May this year and has been actively promoting strategic tasks.

The main contents of the agreement include ▲ sharing the philosophy and policies of the 15-minute city, ▲ cooperating in the national policy-making of the 15-minute city and building domestic and international networks, and ▲ expanding public-private exchange cooperation such as holding 15-minute city councils and forums.

Through the signing of this agreement, it is expected to not only accelerate the implementation of the ‘15-minute city’ policy by establishing policy communication channels between the two local governments, supporting leading policy areas, and strengthening cooperation, but also to create various effects such as national policy-making.

Mayor Park Hyung-joon said, “The agreement signed with Jeju Province is significant in that it established a cooperative system to spread the ‘15-minute city’ policy,” adding, “If the two cities create successful cases and spread this policy nationwide, it will contribute to realizing a true local era where it is good to live anywhere in the Republic of Korea, and we will strive to absorb each other’s achievements and strengths to create a mutual synergy effect.”