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One of the key projects of the Busan-style Urban Regeneration Project, the Making Happy Village Project, is the Happiness Center created as core facility for each village, which are having difficulties to operate after the end of the projects. By surveying the Happiness Center, the participating community and programs provided, this study have found the background conditions and reasons for the operational difficulties as followings. First, Busan's urban regeneration projects which started in 2010 before the implementation of the Urban Regeneration Law in 2013 was an opportunity to present a new model of urban regeneration like Making Happy Village project and Sanbokdoro Renaissance project. Second, as the core facility of Making Happy Village project, Happiness Centers had been constructed and operated before or after the empowerment of local residents with the paradigmatic shift of urban regeneration policy of Busan City. Third, to find out the difficulties concerned with the operation of Happiness Centers, this study surveyed the programs provided by them and found four types of community, profit, hobby·education, and sharing·volunteer. Fourth, different type of program is found to attract different age group of local people, like the profit-oriented programs for age group of 40s, hobby·education-oriented programs for all age groups and sharing·volunteer-oriented programs for the age groups 50s and 60s. Fifth, the emphasis on the self-supporting operation of Happiness Center by local people had been followed by over-emphasis on the profit-oriented program and small number of active participating locals which have prevented wide variety of participation and program.