▲ Incheon Mayor Park Chan-dae
Incheon, which is bidding to host the 2028 G20 Summit in South Korea, is set to reorganize its urban space by innovating its culture, tourism, housing, and transportation systems.
Incheon Mayor Park Chan-dae held a press conference at City Hall today, stating, "We will bring together all of Incheon's tangible and intangible assets by leveraging the G20." He presented three major visions and implementation strategies to elevate industrial competitiveness by clustering K-content and leapfrogging from a transit city into a destination where visitors stay.
The city's three core urban visions are: "Life (A City Where Joy Lingers)," "Live (A City That Builds Life)," and "Link (A 1-Hour Living Zone City)."
First, the vision for "Life" includes establishing a cultural and tourism belt by connecting the Cheongna Video Culture Complex—whose development plan revision recently passed review by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy—with the Jemulpo Open Port and the Munhak K-Culture Park.
The city also decided to pursue initiatives to foster a new tourism hub by linking the former Bupyeong US military base (Camp Market) park area, a cultural complex library, and the Bupyeong Underground Shopping Mall.
Under the "Live" sector, plans include establishing an "Incheon-style administrative expressway" system to swiftly drive projects across six leading districts for the renewal of aging planned cities centered around old downtown areas.
The city also plans to expand housing supply by easing regulations related to downtown redevelopment and introducing "Ieum Housing," a cooperative apartment model.
In the transportation sector, plans involve reflecting the GTX-D and GTX-E metropolitan express railway lines in the 5th National Railway Network Plan, as well as expanding metropolitan arterial road networks and ring road networks.
(Photo: Yonhap News)
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