What works in Busan
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Evidence snapshot for Busan
South Korea's Urban Regeneration New Deal shows that Busan neighbourhood renewal sites experienced average population decline of 8.8% after project completion (with one site declining by 38.2%), though local business counts rose 37.6% on average. Regional-Type Visa Pilot demonstrates Busan attracted approximately 300 international students toward a two-year target of 1,000 by mid-2026, with goals to reach 30,000 citywide by 2028 in engineering and science fields. Busan's AI Agent Service ran a four-month pilot starting September 2025 to triage the city's high complaint volume (219,108 calls in 2024), but no measured results on complaints handled, staff time saved, or citizen satisfaction were published by the pilot's end.
Drawn from: South Korea's Urban Regeneration New Deal — Neighbourhood-Scale Renewal Since 2017 · Regional-Type Visa Pilot — Busan's Sector-Targeted International Student and Talent Programme · Busan's AI Agent Service — A Four-Month Pilot to Triage Civil Complaints in Dialect, With No Results Yet Published
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Multi-stakeholder collaboration +9 pts 83 here · 74 average
Weaknesses
Inclusiveness / equity -9 pts 33 here · 43 average
Transferability / demonstrated replication -16 pts 44 here · 60 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -20 pts 33 here · 54 average
Evidence of impact / measured results -24 pts 33 here · 57 average
Governance, capability & sustainability -30 pts 33 here · 64 average
Sustainability / continuity -45 pts 33 here · 78 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Busan. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
South Korea's Urban Regeneration New Deal — Neighbourhood-Scale Renewal Since 2017 · 62
Regional-Type Visa Pilot — Busan's Sector-Targeted International Student and Talent Programme · 57
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Recommended to adopt or replicate
Transferable practices from elsewhere that address this place's gaps.
Ciudad Mujer — El Salvador's Integrated Women's Services Programme · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 3 other places
SASA! Community Mobilisation Programme against Intimate Partner Violence — Uganda · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 4 other places
Karya — Fair-Wage AI Data-Work Platform Bringing Digital Income to Rural India · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
safe+natal — Comadrona-Designed Smartphone Checklist for Maternal Risk Screening in Rural Guatemala · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Digital Green — Video-Mediated Agricultural Extension · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Kartu Prakerja – National Digital Skills and Financial Inclusion Programme · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Rwanda's Land Tenure Regularization Programme — Titling Land in Women's Names · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 6 other places
Fit estimates how well a practice matches this place, 0 (poor) to 100 (excellent); the list is ordered to favour practices that address this place's gaps. Know more