All Sectors: Industry, Culture, Transportation, Welfare, and Agriculture
A City of Romance, Culture, and Festivals
Over 2,000 Newborns for Two Consecutive Years: A Turning Point in Population Recovery
Record-High Investment Attraction, Surpassing 13 Trillion Won
First New Expressway in Gumi in 55 Years
Record-High Agricultural Budget of 185.8 Billion Won Allocated
In 2025, Gumi City in North Gyeongsang Province is being recognized for achieving unprecedented results across all sectors-including the economy, transportation, culture, and welfare-thanks to a wave of innovation that has continued since the launch of the 8th popularly elected administration.
By prioritizing citizen-centered administration, the city has seen remarkable outcomes, such as the "Gumi Ramen Festival" and other signature events, each drawing crowds of over one million people, rapidly elevating Gumi to national prominence as a festival city.
Notably, the preliminary feasibility study for the "Gumi-Gunwi Expressway" was approved in November 2025, marking the first expressway to pass through downtown Gumi in 55 years since the Gyeongbu Expressway. This milestone has firmly established Gumi’s status as a key city supporting the new airport.
Additionally, beginning with the attraction of the "Cultural Leading Industrial Complex" in March 2025, the city has achieved a series of unprecedented milestones: surpassing 13 trillion won in investment attraction, successfully hosting the 2025 Gumi Asian Athletics Championships, opening the youth hub "Gumi Young Square" at Gumi Station, and attracting the "Food Tech Research Support Center." These accomplishments span industry, economy, culture, population, transportation, agriculture, and welfare, setting new records as the first, largest, or most in the city’s and province’s history.
As a result, Gumi in 2025 is evaluated as having firmly laid the foundation for the "Re-creation of Gumi," moving beyond its image as a gray industrial city to one where romance, culture, and future industries coexist.
Gumi City’s innovations include: the success of urban festivals, establishing itself as a romantic city of culture and festivals visited by one million people; maintaining over 2,000 newborns for two consecutive years, marking a turning point in population recovery; achieving a record-high investment attraction exceeding 13 trillion won, laying the foundation for the next 50 years; the establishment of a new expressway in Gumi for the first time in 55 years, positioning the city as a central hub for regional transportation in the new airport era; and allocating a record-high agricultural budget of 185.8 billion won, driving a major transformation toward prosperous rural communities. As a result of such comprehensive innovation, the "2025 Gumi City Administration and Policy Satisfaction Survey" showed that 76.4% of Gumi citizens expressed satisfaction with the major achievements of the 8th administration.
Furthermore, Gumi received external recognition for the excellence of its administration and policy execution, winning the highest honor-the Grand Prize-at the 30th Korea Local Government Management Awards and achieving a total of 57 awards in 2025 alone.
Alongside these achievements, Gumi City also actively worked to strengthen its fiscal foundation.
As a result, the 2026 budget was set at 2.232 trillion won, an increase of 730 billion won (48.2%) compared to 2022, thereby further solidifying the financial base for the city’s leap forward over the next 50 years.
In 2025, Gumi City simultaneously drove change and achieved results across all urban sectors, marking a major turning point in municipal administration.
Going forward, Gumi plans to continue rapidly advancing key initiatives based on its robust financial resources and strengthened organizational capabilities, continuously spreading the butterfly effect of new hope for the next 50 years.
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