'Deullaknallak' How It Changes... Busan Children's Complex Cultural Space Season 2 Starts

"Pursuing the Concept of 'Adding Happiness to Spaces'"
Busan City to Strengthen Space, Content, and Operational Efficiency

The children's cultural space 'Deullaknalak,' set up in about 100 locations throughout the city including the lobby of Busan City Hall, will be upgraded.

Busan City (Mayor Park Hyung-jun) announced on the 19th that it will promote the project 'Adding Happiness to Spaces, Deullaknalak Season 2.'

At 2 p.m. on the same day, the city held the 'Deullaknalak Policy Talk Talk' at the City Hall Deullaknalak to review the achievements so far and announce future directions.

This event was organized to further strengthen citizen-centered, life-close policy implementation in the second half of the 8th term of the elected government. Mayor Park Hyung-jun presented policy development directions such as plans for additional Deullaknalak creation and operation advancement, and directly listened to citizens' voices.

On the afternoon of the 19th, the 'Deullaknallak Policy Talk' announcing the promotion of Season 2 is taking place at Busan City Hall Deullaknallak.

Deullaknalak Season 2 builds on past achievements by enhancing ▲spaces ▲content ▲operations to provide parents and children with more opportunities for experience and learning.

It will be expanded in various forms based on regional characteristic analysis.

The city will prioritize expanding medium and large spaces with high citizen satisfaction and will also expand the City Hall 'Deullaknalak' to a wider outdoor area in connection with the opening of the Sky Yard of the building.

Additionally, an 'English-specialized Deullaknalak' will be established at Busan Global Village, and a 'Marine-specialized Deullaknalak' linked with corporate sponsorship projects will be created at Busan Children's Grand Park. Deullaknalak will also be further expanded in areas such as Dongnae-gu, where facilities are insufficient compared to the child population.

Furthermore, excellent Deullaknalak content will be distributed to child facilities such as local children's centers and community care centers, allowing low-income children to use them free of charge, expanding Deullaknalak beyond the concept of space creation.

Content diversification will also be attempted. A variety of programs and content will be fully equipped to allow children to learn and dream freely while reducing private education expenses.

The native English program 'Deullaknalak English Play,' popular among parents, will be expanded to more than 60 locations with improved educational quality, using self-developed textbooks (English waves) to strengthen the competitiveness of Busan-style English education.

Digital learning content will be reinforced, audio downloads provided, and Busan global early childhood English instructors will be trained and deployed to further improve educational quality. For the toddler classes, the number of instructors per class will increase from two to three.

Creative convergence education programs related to artificial intelligence (AI) will be gradually disseminated, and through inter-agency collaboration, more than 10 excellent educational programs from other institutions such as physical play, history classes, and reading will be expanded. Family weekend programs will also be newly established.

Various immersive video content will be expanded through subscriptions, and a sharing system for video content owned by Deullaknalak among facilities will be established to present more diverse and high-quality video works to citizens. In addition, new and innovative digital content will be supplied to Deullaknalak in connection with national projects.

The operation system of Deullaknalak will be improved and communication strengthened.

To enhance user convenience, it will operate six days a week, including weekends. The evaluation system will be improved from a creation-centered to an operation-centered approach to strengthen substance, and networking among Deullaknalak locations will be enhanced through events such as expos, systematizing the operation system.

Communication with citizens will also be further strengthened through various channels such as integrated platforms and YouTube, and the Busan Research Institute will prepare a long-term development plan through policy research.

Deullaknalak is a complex children's cultural space designed to enhance children's creativity and imagination. It has achieved results by creating play-based learning spaces that combine analog and digital content such as child-friendly libraries and immersive experiences in idle spaces within a 15-minute living radius.

Since Mayor Park announced the project vision directly to citizens at the vision declaration ceremony in October 2021, it has been realized, and currently, 105 Deullaknalak locations have been established in Busan, with 78 open and operating.

Resident usage of idle spaces increased by 94%, and 1.5 million people visited last year alone, with the 'City Hall Deullaknalak' attracting about 18,000 visitors monthly on average.

Deullaknalak also won the grand prize at the 'SDG City Awards' hosted by the Asia-Pacific City Cooperation Network and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. Busan has been recognized as the top city for children's quality of life and has established itself as a child-friendly city. The Deullaknalak policy name also attracted attention by receiving the 'Good Korean Language Light Award' selected by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Mayor Park Hyung-jun said, "Busan's children's complex cultural space Deullaknalak is a core anchor facility of the 15-minute city and an innovative case utilizing urban idle spaces, attracting great interest not only in Korea but also overseas," adding, "We will develop it into a happy space where our children can share happiness and create joyful memories by applying diverse content."

Busan City Hall.