CITY PROFILES
Mr. Yum Hong-chul
Mr. Kim Bum-il
100 Dunsan-ro, Seo-gu,
Daejeon 302-789
Republic of Korea
+82-42-270-3690-7
http://www.daejeon.go.kr/language/english
1,530,000
METROPOLIS 1996
Association of North East Asia Regional Governments 1996
World Technopolis Association 1998
UCLG 2004
International Regions Benchmarking Consortium 2007
Governors’ Association of Korea
Construction of an urban railway (Line 2): 2013-2020
a. First phase: Jin-jam~ Government Office~ Yu-Seong (Length: 28.6km).
b. Second phase: Yu-seong~Do-an~Jin-jam (Length: 7.4km).
c. Budget: 1,361,700,000,000 won (US$ 1.2 billion)
Sister cities (13): Nanjing (China), Oda (Japan), Binh Duong Province
(Vietnam), Novosibirsk (Russia), Brisbane (Australia), Seattle (USA),
Calgary (Canada), Guadalajara (Mexico), Budapest (Hungary), Uppsala
(Sweden), Durban (South Africa), Shenyang (China).
Friendship cities (13): Tsukuba (Japan), La Serena (Chile), Frankfurt
(Germany), Hefei (China), Algiers (Algeria), Nice (France), Wuhan (China),
Luang Prabang (Laos), Victoria (Seychelles), Firenze (Italy), Jinan (China),
Qingdao (China), Jarkov (Ukraine).
The total Daejeon Metropolitan City budget was 2,426,987,000,000 won
(US$2.25 billion) in 2013 allocated as follows:
General Public Administration: 307,311,567,000 won (US$285.2
million) (12.66%)
Public Order and Security: 25,160,885,000 won (US$23.4 million) (1.04%)
Education: 248,592,372,000 won (US$230.8 million) (10.24%)
Culture and Tourism: 170,468,836,000 won (US$158.3 million) (7.02%)
Environmental Protection: 74,615,665,000 won (US$69.3 million) (3.07%)
Social Welfare: 828,642,303,000 won (US$769 million) (34.14%)
Health: 37,888,335,000 won (US$35.2 million) (1.56%)
Agriculture and Fisheries: 30,092,503,000 won (US$27.9 million) (1.24%)
Small and Medium enterprises: 52,770,739,000 won (US$49
millon) (2.17%)
Transport and Mobility: 233,437,552,000 won (US$216.7 million) (9.62%)
Regional Zone Development: 123,696,877,000 won (US$114.8
million) (5.10%)
Technology: 39,778,702,000 won (US$36.9 million) (1.64%)
Reserve budget is: 254,530,664,000 won (US$236.2 million) (10.49%)
Tel: +82-53-803-2001
http://www.daegu.go.kr
2,528,933
UCLG/UCLG ASPAC (2004) – IULA (2002)
METROPOLIS (2008)
ICLEI (2008)
PATA (2003)
NEAR (2006)
Solar Cities Congress (2004)
Governors’ Association of Korea
complex.
Daegu has no sister cities. Friendship cities include Atlanta (USA), Saint
Petersburg (Russia), Hiroshima (Japan), Qingdao, Ningbo (China), Plovdiv
(Bulgaria), Almaty (Kazahstan) and Taipei (Taiwan).
Total budget for 2013 was 5,000,908,500,000 won (US$4.65 billion)
allocated as follows:
Science 4,618,000,000 w