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Much attention to Healthy Cities concept has been paid in Korea. Since 'the Healthy Cities' concept had been proposed by the WHO, many projects have been implemented to attain such objectives as: healthier environment, individual health promotion and health for all by enhancement of physical environment for public health. Such projects are not exception in local cities in Korea. This study aims both to analyse and to evaluate the local healthy city projects by examining the characteristics of different projects. In this study, we investigated the types and the processes of the healthy city projects(HCPs) which have been implemented by the local governments. In particular, we evaluated of how much the citizens were satisfied with their environment and policies relating to the healthy city in Jinju since 2006, when it had joined 'the Alliance for Healthy City(AFHC)' in Western Pacific Region. Also, we analysed the present conditions of the HCPs with the executive-committee selected among the HCPs candidates in Jinju. In addition, we revised the checking lists used in Australian healthy cities in order to operate the HCPs successfully. For this study, we used the IPA(Importance Performance Analysis) technique to evaluate the HCPs. Finally, we found that the HCPs were critical to the physical environment which had effect on not only the citizens, but also the development policies in the city.