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Creative City

Strategy of Creative City Jinju

Under the vision of “a creative city that embraces history and culture and nurtures future industries,” Jinju City has set the main goals of fostering creative industries, nurturing creative talents, creating a creative atmosphere, promoting international exchanges, and establishing a support system in order to promote a creative city with a complex model of “urban-rural linkage development type.” The mid- and long-term development plan to systematically and efficiently promote these goals is as follows:

Tasks and key strategies for each goal

Objective Task
Goal 1:
Fostering creative industries
Task
- Jinju City has a variety of cultural assets, but has not been able to develop a cultural industry utilizing them.
Key strategy
- Develop cultural products that utilize Jinju’s various cultural assets and support the diversification of product distribution channels.
Goal 2
Nurturing creative talents
Task
- Lack of courses on traditional culture and arts in high schools.
- Lack of educational programs on local culture in primary and secondary education.
Key strategy
− Develop courses on traditional culture and arts in higher schools.
− Develop educational programs on local culture in primary and secondary education.
Goal 3
Creating a creative atmosphere
Task
- Insufficient projects to disseminate cultural assets to citizens.
Key strategy
- Promote the popularization of crafts and folk arts.
Goal 4
Promoting international exchanges
Task
- Insufficient international exchange in the field of arts and culture.
Key strategy
- Activate international exchange in the field of arts and culture.

Scope of the plan

- Temporal scope: 2020 (base year)-2040 (target year)
- Spatial scope: All of Jinju City

Stage Time Span
1st stage 2019-2023
2nd stage 2023-2027
3rd stage 2027-2031
4th stage 2031-2035

- Spatial extent : Whole city of Jinju