Park Seong-nam, Deputy Mayor, Announces 'Uijeongbu Wellness' Vision
Focus on Four Key Areas: Emotional, Mental, Physical, and Social Enhancement
Five Major Sectors: Culture, Education, Sports, Health, and Sharing
Uijeongbu City in Gyeonggi Province announced its vision of ‘Wellness City Uijeongbu’ to improve the quality of life for its citizens, attempting a differentiated approach from the existing tourism-centered wellness projects.
On the 26th, Deputy Mayor Park Seong-nam is presenting the vision of 'Wellness City Uijeongbu' for a healthy city for citizens at the city hall press room. Photo by Uijeongbu City
On the 26th, Park Seong-nam, Deputy Mayor of Uijeongbu, held a press conference at the city hall press room and presented the ‘Uijeongbu-style Wellness’ vision focusing on five major areas: culture, education, sports, health, and sharing.
At the event, Deputy Mayor Park emphasized, “Through an approach differentiated from other local governments’ wellness projects focused on tourism, we will leap forward as a wellness city that enhances the quality of life for our citizens.”
Uijeongbu plans to promote ‘Uijeongbu-style Wellness’ by leveraging its strengths as the first legal cultural city in northern Gyeonggi and a hub for education, medical care, and sports. The goal is to pursue the enhancement of the four core elements of wellness?physical, mental, emotional, and social wellness?while ensuring that all citizens are given ‘opportunities,’ all local resources are ‘linked,’ and ‘sustainability’ is secured. This is based on the concept of wellness, which means actively pursuing a better life beyond merely being free from illness.
In the cultural sector aimed at promoting emotional wellness, the project ‘The City as Theater, Nature as Stage’ will select 25 teams to perform, and support the creative activities of 50 artists from northern Gyeonggi. Additionally, the 40th ‘Hoeryong Cultural Festival’ and Uijeongbu local tours will strengthen regional identity.
In the education sector for enhancing mental wellness, the city plans to create an educational city where all citizens have learning opportunities and form learning communities linked with local resources, allowing citizens and the city to learn and grow together. Specialized projects will be promoted for different age groups such as youth, middle-aged, and elderly. In particular, the ‘Semo School’ program will operate to strengthen job creation and entrepreneurship capabilities at each stage of life career development, ensuring vocational education connects to certification acquisition and social reintegration.
The citizen learning platform ‘Citizen University’ will open courses focused on local issues and develop policies through citizen proposals, aiming to become a lifelong learning brand unique to Uijeongbu.
On the 26th, Deputy Mayor Park Seong-nam is presenting the vision of 'Wellness City Uijeongbu' for a healthy city for citizens at the city hall press room. Photo by Uijeongbu City
To promote physical wellness, the city plans to create a sports city where everyone has the opportunity to be healthy, linking Uijeongbu’s resources to host sports competitions and coexist professional and recreational sports.
Through talent donations by athletes from workplace sports teams, citizens will be able to experience various sports. To ensure that people with disabilities are not excluded from sports activities, the city will operate sports classes using local sports facilities and hold inclusive climbing competitions.
In the health sector, the city will manage the health of elderly living alone using AI robots, implement walking projects using the ‘Everyone’s Runner’ app, and operate health lifestyle campaigns and emergency medical systems in cooperation with local universities and medical institutions.
In the sharing sector to promote social wellness, the city plans to establish a continuous sharing system through the operation of ‘Apartment Volunteer Groups’ and ‘Fix-it Volunteer Groups,’ surveys of talent volunteer organizations, and expansion of the ‘Warmth Sharing Campaign.’
Last October, Uijeongbu was recognized for its potential as a wellness city by being selected as a ‘K-Wellness City’ by the Korea Wellness Industry Association.
Deputy Mayor Park stated, “The role of the city in improving citizens’ quality of life is becoming increasingly important,” and emphasized, “We will newly connect the five areas of culture, education, sports, health, and sharing under the goal of Uijeongbu-style Wellness so that Uijeongbu’s potential can become a strength as a wellness city and citizens can move toward a healthy city.”
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