Suwon Mayor Yeom Tae-young: "Public Officials Pursuing Proactive Administration Should Be Praised, Not Blamed"

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Seo Dong-young] Suwon Mayor Yeom Tae-young stated, "Even if minor issues arise with public officials who pioneer new paths through proactive administration, we should praise them rather than hold them accountable."

On the 17th, at the "Proactive Administration Online Training for Mindset Innovation of Suwon City Public Officials," Mayor Yeom said, "We must encourage public officials to actively pursue anything," and added, "I will create an environment where public officials can pursue policies creatively."

The "Proactive Administration Training" conducted in a non-face-to-face format consisted of remarks by Mayor Yeom Tae-young and a lecture by Park Jong-poong, a commissioned lecturer at the Human Resources Innovation Office. Employees watched the lecture held at the City Hall auditorium online.

Mayor Yeom emphasized, "We must convert the regulatory system to a 'comprehensive negative method,'" and stated, "We must change to a 'negative method' where everything is allowed except OOO, creating an environment where civil servants can pursue proactive administration."

Comprehensive negative regulation is the opposite concept of positive regulation, which states 'only allowed things are permitted.' Instead, it means 'everything is allowed except prohibited things.' It is an approach that permits first and then applies post-regulation if necessary.

The city inspected all autonomous ordinances in October and November of last year, identified tasks for converting to comprehensive negative regulation, and established improvement measures.

Mayor Yeom stated, "Public officials must always solve matters occurring in the field in line with citizens' perspectives," and urged, "If there are no institutions necessary for proactive administration, let us take the lead in creating them."

Park Jong-poong, commissioned lecturer at the Human Resources Innovation Office, explained the concept and necessity of proactive administration, prior consultation and exemption systems, field case-oriented proactive administration, passive administration cases, and exemption cases.

The city is pursuing various measures to establish and spread a culture of proactive administration in the public sector, including ▲establishment of proactive administration implementation plans ▲system improvements ▲selection of proactive administration priority tasks ▲operation of proactive administration policy and civil servant-citizen recommendation channels ▲proactive administration commitment pledges ▲discovery of outstanding cases ▲production and distribution of proactive administration system promotional materials and videos of outstanding cases.