Cultural City

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  #Cultural City

  Wanju cultural city’s specialization strategiesFocusing on the people for innovation and growth

  Since 2018, Wanju has been paying attention and focusing on the people and their community for the innovation and growth of its local culture. It fosters and organizes culture makers, the main body of local culture growth, of their community. It is innovating and growing local culture by providing open opportunities for new cultural experiences.A Sympathetic Cultural City for the Establishment of a Cultural Autonomy EcosystemIt supports citizens and cultural activists not only as true participating agents of cultural policies and projects but also as the core promoters of the cultural city project, in order to solve their social and life problems in cultural ways. Through the establishment of cultural autonomy governance led by residents, Wanju's cultural autonomy ecosystem will be constructed.A culture sharing city through connecting cultural resourcesAll the cultural resources of the county such as the personnel and material knowledge and information that each person, the community, and the region have will be discovered by the citizens themselves. By systematizing and sharing these, a system will be d that utilizes them as cultural assets for everyone so that there are no restrictions on cultural activities due to resource restrictions.A communal culture for the collaborative creation of a cultural communityThere will be support for the revitalization of the cultural community, where citizens realize various cultural values with limitless imagination, freely, and cooperate to innovate local culture and the region together with other members. There will also be support to foster professionals, secure the space for their activities, and discover collaborative and cooperative projects to strengthen cultural community activities to be continued on a daily basis.A symbiotic cultural city through the solidarity of local resourcesCity culture and cultural capital cooperate and become tied together through citizens’ various cultural interests, value systems, and creative ideas. In solidarity with various socioeconomic capital, Wanju-gun will opportunities for new cultural practices, and establish a system of solidarity and cooperation between cultural and social capitals so that it becomes the daily life of Wanju citizens.

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  Visions of Cultural City, WanjuBeginnings and Possibilities for All, a Community Cultural City, Wanju

  Wanju, a community cultural city, strives to be a city where anyone can do anything,at any time. Originally, culture is not something that can be achieved alone, but something d together, by many people. As Wanju has improved its various foundations for the community ‘together,‘ it has a bigger possibility to succeed. Wanju citizens are very rich in community life experiences through local food and social and economic activities, and are used to achieving common goals together. With the numerous experiences of the citizens, we are opening a wider and deeper road to Wanju community cultural city. Wanju, a community cultural city, has a goal to develop the unique experiences of the citizens, which are not easily found in those of other cities, into local cultural traditions.A changing cultural landscape, a new way to respond to new cultural needs of citizens, and a new orderThe concept of "community" that we have grown used to, is broader and more diverse in cultural cities. It intensively fosters and discovers a ‘Wanju-type cultural community’ as a group of people with similar interests, values, and tastes, even if they do not live in the same place, going beyond geographical and regional communities. The creation of Wanju cultural city is not a project to build large-scale cultural facilities or hold large-scale events such as festivals. Its goal is to an environment and condition in which any citizen can try cultural activities freely as he or she wants, and with no restrictions. It expands direct participation through four areas of understanding each other, sharing, collaboration, and symbiosis, shares local cultural resources, expands cultural projects through cooperation and collaboration, and ensures that the achievements of cultural cities can be permeated effectively throughout the community.A Policy shift accepting citizens’ needs and changes in the cultural landscapeCreating opportunities to realize new cultural imaginations and new collaborative models of the local cultural industryFrom 2021 to 2025, the creation of Wanju community cultural city will proceed in earnest. All citizens will begin to build a new cultural tradition here in Wanju. Great cultural phenomena which have continued based on our county’s strong energy and enrich the lives of our citizens, will remain a constant, always at the fore.Vision: a community cultural city where lives change as a culture of being togetherWanju has a vision of a community cultural city where life changes with the culture of togetherness. The goal is to a new cultural method and order that accommodates changing cultural landscapes and new cultural needs of citizens based on regional uniqueness and citizens' diversity. The aim is to make Wanju a community cultural city that s cultural traditions of understanding each other, sharing, and innovation.Essential Values: Cultural Community and Community CultureA cultural community is a body of understanding each other, discarding exclusivity, and is a body of communication and exchange, sharing its own interests, tastes, values and orientations. A community culture means a culture of coexistence and symbiosis where citizens participate voluntarily and respect differences through lateral communication and sharing.A city where different members and various cultural elements face each other.Wanju, a community cultural city

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  Cultural City, Wanju-gun’s policy-level necessitiesTo the most ‘complete’ Cultural City (Wanju can also mean ‘complete’ in English)

  The Reason Wanju Began the Cultural City ProjectWanju-gun is a county-level basic local government, but it ranks fifth (5.1%) in the proportion to the population of 14 cities and counties in Jeollabuk-do after Jeonju, Gunsan, Iksan, and Jeongeup, larger than Namwon and Gimje. In particular, it is also a region where the population has increased, which is rare for a county-level region. The main factor in its population growth is due to social growth based on the rapid influx of outsiders rather than natural growth such as an increase in the birth rate. This is likely to be a source of tension and conflict-causing factors that threaten the traditional community spirit that has been maintained in the community.In addition, Wanju-gun has rapidly urbanized owing to the expansion of adjacent Jeonju, the creation of Wanju-Jeonju Innovation City, and the expansion of Wanju Industrial Complex. Further, as the social movement of its population has increased, the background of its citizens is also diversifying.Currently, about 400 social economic communities have been formed in Wanju-gun, and 10% of the population is engaged in economic activities based on these communities. A representative successful example of social economic community activities is the local food project. The local food project in Wanju-gun was selected as an excellent case by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and was successful enough to be a benchmarking case for many local governments. With the success of social economic communities such as the local food project, Wanju-gun's GRDP grows at an annual average of 9.7%, ranking first among the 14 cities and counties in Jeollabuk-do, and twice as high as Jeollabuk-do's average GRDP, generating considerable economic income for its citizens.As the economic income of citizens has grown significantly, a qualitative leap in the cultural environment and sociocultural domain corresponding to this is becoming an important policy-level task. Due to these policy necessities, Wanju-gun set the vision and goal of urban development of "100,000 Wanju Era, the Topmost City to Open Together" and established three key policies (job, quality of life, and agricultural and rural). Among them, the "Quality of Life Making All Happy, Renaissance Wanju" strategy is being promoted as a policy related to the quality of life belonging to the sociocultural domain.The cultural city project is closely related to the strategy of ‘Renaissance Wanju.’ The ‘Renaissance Wanju’ strategy is promoted based on various community activities in the region formed through community business projects, which is the highest form of competitiveness of Wanju-gun.In fact, it is true that local communities in Wanju-gun have focused more on income-oriented businesses that generate economic profits, but now they intend to expand their scope of activities to cultural areas that cultural environments suitable for economic growth levels and establish their own local cultural identities.In order to achieve this goal step by step, Wanju-gun established its own visions and directions to develop itself into a cultural city, applied for a project to construct special cultural areas and was finally selected in 2017. Since 2018, proceeding with the project to construct special cultural areas, Wanju-gun prepared ‘Basic Design of Wanju Cultural City,’ the basic frame of the creation of a cultural city, for the designation and promotion of it based on the Local Culture Promotion Act. The ‘Basic Design of Wanju Cultural City’ sets a goal to make a new city brand with which Wanju realizes the value of the community cultural city by reorganizing the discourse on regional regeneration and culture and laying the foundation of a cultural city by itself, under the vision of ‘the community cultural city.’ Based on this design, it applied for the cultural city designation project in the second year of the process of the special cultural area project in 2019, and was selected as a prospective cultural city and began to carry out the project in 2020. In particular, Wanju began its plan to the cultural city project from 2017, and for about 24 months until the cultural city creation plan was finally approved in 2019, they met 9,876 citizens at 395 locations to listen to their opinions on cultural city creation projects and collect opinions on project directions, detailed tasks, and implementation projects. In this process, research and research projects involving a group of experts were also conducted in parallel. As a result, the cultural community and community culture that are most easily understood and recognized by the residents were set as the core values of the cultural city, and the vision was also set as ‘a community cultural city where lives change through shared culture’. The concept of a community expanded from a physical domain-centered community according to geographical and regional division, to a taste- and value- sharing community that shares interests, tastes, and value systems. The direction of specialization was also set as a culture of understanding each other, sharing, cooperation, and symbiosis, the base and effect of a community.This vision and value system of Wanju Community Culture City is based on local experience and is easily understood and agreed on by its citizens, which has become an important factor in smoothly inducing cooperation and their participation in the process of establishing and implementing project plans or detailed tasks.The Wanju-gun Cultural City Project established the governance of the Wanju-type community cultural city based on the promotion system led by citizens as the substantial subject of the project.Wanju-gun has been closely identifying local cultural sites and the detailed tasks of cultural projects from the process of designing cultural city projects, reviewing various roles and functions related to urban culture, and setting mid- to long- term prospects on how to share roles and cooperation in local innovative solutions.

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  What exactly is ‘Wanju Cultural City’?Q&A about ‘Cultural City, Wanju’

  Q. This year, Wanju-gun became a legally designated cultural city. What is a legally designated cultural city?A. This year, Wanju-gun started the year with the happy news of being designated as a legally designated cultural city, but what is the definition of a "legally designated cultural city"? Cultural cities are based on the Local Culture Promotion Act. Each local government sets up a cultural city creation plan based on its own cultural values and can be designated after uation and deliberation by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.Q. It says Wanju-gun is the first county to become a cultural city. Is that correct?A. Absolutely. Currently, there are a total of 12 legally designated cultural cities in Korea, 7 designated in 2020 and 5 in 2021. Wanju-gun was the first county designated as a cultural city among 82 counties in the country, and became the only legally designated cultural city in the Honam region. It will receive 20 billion won in national, provincial, and county expenses.Q. How is it helpful for Wanju-gun to be designated a cultural city?A. Based on the law, it will a cultural city through the city brand of a legally designated cultural city, with financial support of up to 20 billion won for its projects, and systematic process design that values governance and civic cooperation. In other words, It's about establishing a new cultural tradition in the city. For this reason, many local governments are applying to be part of this project every year.Q. In order to be designated as a cultural city, what processes did Wanju-gun go through?A: It takes a total of two years to be designated as a cultural city. In the first year, the approval of the cultural city creation plan containing the characteristics and plans of local governments and the process of designating a prospective city will be carried out. In the second year, when the city has been designated as a prospective city, the processes and results of preliminary projects to a cultural city are uated.Wanju-gun’s plan to a community cultural city Wanju-gun was approved and designated as a prospective city in 2019, and Wanju-gun carried out various preliminary projects in 2020. Wanju-gun was finally designated as a cultural city in January, 2021. We have begun to take steps to a sustainable driving force for our own city through culture and an unrestricted local cultural environment.

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