Gyeonggi Province pilot operation of item sharing and social dining programs for single-person young households. New youth spaces created in Hwaseong, Uijeongbu, and Pocheon cities. Additional program operating costs provided for youth spaces currently operated by existing cities and counties
Ministry of Interior and Safety announces '2020 Comprehensive Development Plan for Areas Around U.S. Forces Korea Stationed Regions.' Total 1.155 trillion won investment including 91 billion won in national budget across 59 projects in 11 cities and counties within the province
Creation of rest areas and convenience infrastructure for soldiers on leave in military-concentrated areas near the border. Dual benefits of boosting military morale, job creation, and consumption promotion for regional mutual development
Plaque unveiling ceremony and first meeting held on the 8th at Gyeonggi Province Government Northern Office
'2018 Gyeonggi Province Content Industry Statistical Survey' results… Based on 2017, total sales of 23.6754 trillion won. Total of 126,126 content industry workers in the province… 10,000 more than previous year
Malaria cases from January to end of September this year (275 cases) decreased by 20 compared to the same period last year (295 cases)
Pocheon City (Mayor Kim Jong-cheon) announced on the 30th that it is expanding free flu vaccinations to include single-parent households and poultry farm workers (excluding farm owners) among citizens aged 6 to 64 who are not eligible for the national influenza program, along with existing beneficiaries. This expansion is being implemented to take care of socially disadvantaged groups and prepare in advance for avian influenza outbreaks, with vaccinations available at health centers and substations until vaccine supplies are exhausted. Natio…
Pocheon City (Mayor Kim Jong-cheon) was selected as an outstanding agency for the 2017 National Happiness Civil Affairs Center operated by the Ministry of Interior and Safety, and will receive the Minister's Award at the 'Civil Service Day' event on the 22nd of next month. The National Happiness Civil Affairs Center is selected by comprehensively evaluating the facilities and civil services of civil affairs centers operated by approximately 250 local governments and city and provincial education offices nationwide. Pocheon City uses the old city hall completed in 1982, so compared to other local governments…
Pocheon City (Mayor Kim Jong-cheon) conducted a promotional campaign for voluntary payment of overdue fines on the 13th with all staff from the Tax Administration Division participating. The promotional campaign not only promoted fine types and penalty reduction notice benefits on major streets such as Sineupdong Terminal, but also conducted publicity about license plate seizure activities for vehicles with delinquent automobile taxes and fines, encouraging citizens to voluntarily pay overdue amounts and raise awareness of local tax payment. From September 25 to October 24, the city imposed…
Pocheon City (Mayor Kim Jong-cheon) secured an additional 9.8 billion won in national and provincial funds through hands-on administration. The city requested budget support from central government ministries and Gyeonggi Province for project costs needed throughout city administration including roads, transportation, water supply, and disaster safety, securing approximately 9.8 billion won in national and provincial funds as of September 28. The breakdown includes 1.405 billion won in special allocation tax from the Ministry of Interior and Safety (7 projects including Soseul Pressure Tank) and Gyeonggi…
Pocheon City (Mayor Kim Jong-cheon) held on the 7th at the Municipal Central Library a business improvement case presentation and discussion session on the topic of 'Improvement of Clinical Revenue Payment and Collection Resolution Methods' with approximately 60 attendees including civil revenue personnel from health centers nationwide such as Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul and Muan-gun, Jeollanam-do, and in-house civil revenue personnel. Pocheon City is 1.4 times the size of Seoul with 22 health clinics and medical offices located in remote areas, and…
Pocheon City (Mayor Kim Jong-cheon) held an explanation meeting on the 2018 main budget compilation and operation guidelines on the 4th. Approximately 100 city government officials attended the meeting, which was conducted for approximately 90 minutes focusing on next year's budget compilation and operation guidelines, budget compilation schedule, and Q&A. Bae Jae-su, head of the Planning and Budget Division, said 'In a situation where next year's revenue forecast is uncertain, efficiently allocating limited resources is more important than ever,' adding 'To this end, through sound fiscal management, resources saved…
Pocheon City, Gyeonggi (Mayor Kim Jong-cheon) conducted administrative compulsory execution on the 1st on barrier poles excluding main facilities among illegal temporary structures set up at the entrance of Wangbang Village, Sinbuk-myeon to obstruct passage, which a landowner claimed was his own land. The landowner exploited the fact that it takes several months for the administrative agency to take administrative measures against illegal buildings, installing illegal access control facilities, but under the 'Building Act' regulations regarding buildings that significantly impede road…
Pocheon City (Mayor Kim Jong-cheon) held an interim report meeting on four types of projects including Pocheon City's Transportation Master Plan on the 29th in the City Administration Conference Room with traffic experts and others in attendance, to prepare mid and long-term blueprints in response to traffic condition changes including the opening of the Guri-Pocheon Private Highway and changes in Yongjung and Jangsa Industrial Complex. Currently being promoted projects include comprehensive plans on a 5-year basis (2017-2021) according to traffic-related laws such as the 'Law on…
Yangju City (Mayor Yi Sung-ho) held a progress report meeting on major key projects for 2017 on the 16th in the City Hall Situation Room. The report meeting examined 2017 project implementation achievements and future promotion strategies across city administration including major focus projects for the completion of the 6th popular election mayoral pledges and vision of 'the definitive change and inspiration citizens want, Yangju'. The city selected 12 core tasks and 35 detailed tasks for 2017, and designated 2017 as a population of 300,000…
Pocheon City (Mayor Kim Jong-cheon) is implementing an 'Administrative Comprehensive Observation System' to promptly resolve inconveniences in citizens' daily lives and prevent safety accidents in order to realize a city of hope where citizens' dreams come true. The 'Administrative Comprehensive Observation System' is a service where civil servants observe in real time and register using a smartphone app (Administrative Comprehensive Observation System) during commutes or business trips, which then links with the internal administrative system for processing by the relevant department. Roads, traffic, advertisements, environment, etc…
Pocheon City (Mayor Kim Jong-cheon) Tax Administration Division is providing services that bring kindness and emotion to citizens while listening to friendly broadcasts, pledging this every morning. Along with the 'Opening Pocheon City's Morning Friendly Broadcast with 4S of Kindness' that began in June, all staff stand up and open their day with energetic friendly greetings. Employees stand up at their desks and look at each other, or toward citizens, saying 'Hello. Have a good day,' opening their day with…
Pocheon City (Mayor Kim Jong-cheon) held a pledge implementation evaluation committee appointment ceremony and informal gathering on the 28th of last month in the City Hall Administration Conference Room with approximately 40 attendees including heads of bureaus, department heads in charge of pledge projects, and 8 pledge implementation evaluation committee members. The pledge implementation evaluation committee is operated as a special subcommittee of Pocheon City's Policy Committee and is composed of 8 representatives from citizens and related field experts to provide consultation on pledges and evaluate faithful implementation, holding the first appointment ceremony this day. 6th…
Pocheon City (Mayor Kim Jong-cheon) held the 6th Pocheon City Real Estate Price Public Notice Committee meeting on the 26th in the Administration Conference Room with 17 attendees including real estate price public notice committee members and appraisers. This meeting was prepared to review objections filed for 113 parcels of land based on individual public notice land prices as of January 1 this year, and the results reviewed this day will be adjusted and publicly announced on the 31st. From January to May this year, the city conducted land price survey and calculation work and appraisal…
Pocheon City (Mayor Kim Jong-cheon) has been promoting domestic best practice benchmarking training targeting all public officials since early July as part of making a 'City of Hope, Pocheon.' 'Seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times'—visiting the sites of other local governments' excellent administrative systems and policies to observe, hear, and experience field practices while seeking necessary institutional improvements for citizens and discovering new policies that can be creatively implemented. The implementation period extends until the end of August, and after completing visits…
Pocheon City (Mayor Kim Jong-cheon) held a progress report meeting on priority projects for the first half of 2017 on the 20th in the Administration Conference Room with 25 senior civil servants attending. The report meeting was held to check implementation status and issues, evaluate, and discuss future plans for 72 large-scale priority projects that Pocheon City will focus on and promote in 2017. Pocheon City divides projects by completion deadline into short-term (within 2 years), mid-term (3-5 years), and long-term (over 5 years)…
Pocheon City's Water Supply and Sewerage Division will relocate its office to Pocheon Comprehensive Stadium (1518 Hoguk-ro, Gunnaemyeon) on the 22nd. The Water Supply and Sewerage Division is relocating offices to the 1st floor (Computer Room) and 2nd floor (Water Supply and Sewerage Departments) of Pocheon Comprehensive Stadium. The city plans to post notices about the office relocation on the city website and display banners and signs around the Water Supply and Sewerage Division building and the Pocheon Comprehensive Stadium to prevent inconvenience to citizens. Additionally, organizational restructuring planned…
Pocheon City Mayor Kim Jong-cheon's actions, who presented 'a city of hope where citizens' dreams come true' as the city's administrative vision, are drawing attention. As Mayor Kim Jong-cheon approaches his 100th day in office on the 21st, he is making brisk administrative efforts to create a Pocheon City that leaps forward through change and innovation and to ensure that pledges made to Pocheon citizens are properly implemented. Mayor Kim is driving changes in Pocheon City based on four core administrative values: friendly administration, responsible administration, innovative administration, and empathetic administration…
Pocheon City (Mayor Kim Jong-cheon) announced that on the 12th, Mayor Kim Jong-cheon visited the field for the cadastral resurvey project benchmark point measurement at the Sineupdong 2nd District, received reports on project implementation status and benchmark point observation methods, and encouraged staff of the Korea Land Information Corporation Pocheon City Branch (Branch Director Kim Yong-guk) selected as project operators and proxy agents. Sineupdong 2nd District is a representative central area of Pocheon, but most of the downtown area is listed as land subject to registration correction, restricting real estate transactions, various construction activities, etc…
Pocheon City (Mayor Kim Jong-cheon) announced a 'personnel innovation system based on performance and merit' operation plan shortly after taking office as the 6th Mayor of Pocheon, emphasizing the principle of excluding cronyism. The detailed implementation plans reemphasized the determination to operate transparent and clean personnel systems through establishing a personnel system that everyone can agree with. Through operating a merit-based personnel system, the city has expanded recruitment for specialized positions, conducted surveys of all staff opinions, re-diagnosed team leader duties for grade 6 and introduced performance evaluation systems, etc…
Mayor Kim Jong-cheon of Pocheon City visited the Ministry of Strategy and Finance on the 5th to secure national budget for infrastructure of industrial complexes. Yangmun General Industrial Complex in Pocheon City requires significant maintenance costs due to aging basic facilities, which are borne by businesses located in the industrial complex, and as the global economic downturn continues, management difficulties for businesses located in the industrial complex are increasing, making it necessary to develop countermeasures for activating industrial complex operations. Therefore, Mayor Kim…
Pocheon City (Mayor Kim Jong-cheon) announced on the 7th that it assessed property taxes of 68,175 cases totaling 15.2 billion won for July 2017 regular installment. Property tax taxpayers are owners of housing and buildings as of June 1 this year. In the case of housing, property taxes of 100,000 won or less are fully assessed in July, and amounts exceeding 100,000 won are assessed in July and September at 1/2 each. The property tax payment deadline is the 31st, and payment notices will be sent to…
Pocheon City (Mayor Kim Jong-cheon) announced on the 7th that it is making the '2025 Pocheon City Landscape Plan' (established 2015-2017) available for public notice to inform citizens, in order to create a pleasant and beautiful landscape. Pocheon City's landscape plan has the future vision of 'Pocheon, a beautiful city with four seasons of color' and has prepared detailed plans. In particular, to realize Pocheon's 'appealing culture and tourism city,' among the major tourist attractions and 43rd National Highway that determines the city's image, stone axes…
Pocheon City (Mayor Kim Jong-cheon) has selected 'Pocheon, a City of Hope Where Citizens' Dreams Come True' as its city administration vision and is concentrating administrative power on road expansion and construction projects based on National Route 43, the city's main artery. With approximately 60,000 vehicles using National Route 43 daily, chronic traffic congestion has become an obstacle to regional development, so the city is pursuing various projects to expand and improve roads with eight connections in all directions and enhance urban infrastructure, promoting regional bal…
