Wanju, a community cultural city, where everything, from A to Z, is planned and carried out by the citizens themselves. The cultural city is d with the heads, minds, hands, and feet of the citizens of Wanju-gun.

Citizens’ small-scale daily public forum ‘Meetings without representatives in Wanju’

‘Meetings without representatives in Wanju’ is a small-scale daily public forum where citizens plan and execute their own decisions, from deciding agendas to recruiting participating citizens. In 2020, 166 public forums were set up, 113 agendas were discovered, and 841 citizens participated. This year, it hasn’t been easy for citizens to meet each other due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing, but 173 meetings were held, 74 agendas were discovered, and 453 citizens participated.

‘Wanju Monthly Cultural City’; Cooperative Forums for Solutions

Wanju Monthly Cultural City, a cooperative forum for finding solutions for problems, is a place to find ways for local agendas raised through the daily public forum ‘Meetings Without Representatives in Wanju.’ Agenda raisers, experts in related fields, and the Wanju Cultural City Support Center will set the stage for discussion to solve problems together.The results from this meeting will be made into specific policies and aid in the commercialization of Wanju-gun through the final public forum ’Wanju Cultural Assembly,’ after intensive research and pilot projects.

‘Wanju Cultural Assembly’

The Wanju Cultural Assembly is a venue for public and private cooperation in which citizens, administrators, related organizations, and experts all participate to make the agenda raised through civic diliberation government policy projects. Last year in 2020, Wanju-gun Office, Wanju-gun Council experts, and 128 citizens participated and agreed to ‘set up a local cultural safety net’, resulting in legislating ‘ordinances on the establishment of the relief system and safety net for the figures in crisis of the cultural industry of Wanju-gun’, the nation’s first such ordinance.

‘Wanju Citizen Jury for Culture’ considering and deciding cultural city support projects

The ‘Wanju Citizen Jury for Culture’ is a system that examines and selects projects to be supported in which local citizens become beneficiaries from the perspective of themselves. Last year, 44% of the total support budget was selected by the citizens themselves, and this year it has been established as a screening system to select more than 80% of the Wanju-gun cultural city support projects.The satisfaction with the support communities for the screening of a cultural jury, who are well aware of the needs of the region, was very high, and no complaints have been filed since the first implementation. In addition, it has a very positive effect on the satisfaction of citizens who have experienced jury activities and the perception of values for cultural city policies and projects.

‘Wanju Citizen Planning Team for On-site Culture’; from planning to execution

The "Wanju Cultural Site Citizen Planning Group" consists of planners, execution groups, and partners in the field of cultural city projects that carry out the entire project. From hardware projects such as the creation of cultural spaces to ‘@Wanju Cultural Market Day’, ‘Wanju Cultural Healing School’, and ‘City Drawing, Cultural Regeneration Project’, 28 citizen planning groups are participating. Above all, the values of the activity are not only to collect opinions, but also to operate it from the planning stage through to the final implementation of the project.