Green City, Creating Experiential Spaces for Enjoying Culture and Leisure in Daily Life
Mayor Lee Gang-deok, "Creating a Distinguished City Where Everyone Wants to Live"
Pohang City will focus its administrative capabilities next year to create a city where citizens are happy.
Lee Gang-deok, Mayor of Pohang, briefing at the Haksancheon Ecological Stream Restoration Project site. Photo by Pohang City
To this end, the city strives to realize a beautiful green city where citizens can enjoy rest in their daily lives anywhere.
By creating child-safe green forests centered on life-friendly street greenery and child protection zones, the city aims to establish citizen-experienced green spaces within a 5-minute walk from home, while also connecting the interrupted sections of the Haeparang Trail where one can enjoy the scenic natural beauty of the East Sea.
Following the successful completion of the Haksan Stream ecological restoration, the city plans to sequentially prepare ecological restoration of the four major rivers, and together with the railway forest, efforts will be made to spread the Central Greenway?where forest paths and waterways meet?throughout the city.
Along with this, various experiential spaces will be created so that culture and leisure can be easily enjoyed in daily life.
The city will operate distinctive beaches with various themes such as surfing and marine leisure sports, and create a complex cultural space that harmonizes historical and cultural resources based on the sea, transforming Pohang into a marine cultural experience city where the sea can be felt all year round.
Additionally, by expanding sports infrastructure such as Haedo National Sports Center and Duho Gymnasium, Pohang will become a healthy and vibrant city where citizens can easily access and enjoy physical activities in their daily lives.
The city also plans to actively promote the construction of the second building of the Municipal Art Museum and the Municipal Museum, and expand the cultural base by attracting a branch of the National Central Library.
In particular, it will support citizens’ well-being through customized lifestyle welfare that can be felt directly and by strengthening public and essential medical services.
Starting full operation next year, the Ainuri Center will systematically promote the Pohang-style infant care project to create an environment favorable for having and raising children.
Customized services will be provided to citizens who need care at each life cycle stage, and through more meticulous and robust protection of socially vulnerable groups, everyone will be supported to enjoy a healthy life.
As the first in the nation to integrate a public health center and a disaster trauma center, the city will expand public health medical infrastructure, led by the operation of the Buk-gu Public Health Center to be built in Heunghae, and strengthen essential medical services focused on childbirth and pediatric care to establish a seamless regional medical system.
Especially, to solve the serious regional medical imbalance and dramatically improve medical accessibility for local residents who had depended on large general hospitals in the metropolitan area, Pohang City is making its best efforts to establish the POSTECH Medical School, which it is prioritizing, to provide high-quality medical services.
Mayor Lee Kang-deok said, “We will devote ourselves to creating a dignified city where everyone wants to live by improving residential conditions,” and added, “Next year, we will further enhance citizen satisfaction by developing policies that citizens can feel closely.”
© The Asia Business Daily(www.asiae.co.kr). All rights reserved.
