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4.2 Smart sustainable city strategy: Daegu’s blueprint for its future

The transition of Daegu into a smart sustainable city started in 2016, with the establishment of
Future Vision 2030, which laid out a vision on how to transform the city. The vision is illustrated in
Figure 5 and contains a final vision for Daegu to be a “Global Leading City with Industrial Growth
and Inhabitants’ Happiness”. A key feature of this vision is that “growth” is linked to “inhabitant
happiness”.

Figure 5: Daegu's future vision 2030

To further incorporate ICTs as the core of city operations at the national level, in 2018, the Republic
of Korea adopted the Act on the Promotion of Smart City Development and Industry. This legislation
aims to support national smart city projects to facilitate sustainable urban regeneration, promote
innovation, enhance data connectivity and improve the quality of living.

As part of the Republic of Korea’s smart city innovation growth engine project, USD 54 million
will have been invested in Daegu during the period 2018–2022. The annual smart city budget of
Daegu City is USD 17 million.

In 2021, the Daegu Metropolitan City Smart City Plan, an action plan to create a smart sustainable
city, was established linking municipal administration goals of Daegu and solutions for urban
problems. This Smart City Plan is a legal plan established in accordance with Article 8 of the Smart
City Creation and Industry Promotion Act.

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