Yongin Mayor Baek Gun-ki Orders Officials to "Embrace Change and Innovation, Not Repeat the Past"

Yongin Mayor Baek Gun-ki recently ordered senior officials during a dialogue session to "refrain from adhering to existing practices and repeating the past, and instead approach your duties with an attitude of change and innovation."

According to Yongin City on the 8th, this emphasized that if public officials merely follow existing practices and fail to attempt new changes in implementing policies, the city's development cannot be expected.

Mayor Baek also stated that public officials should prioritize spirit of service to citizens as their foremost value.

He stressed that as the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic has caused ordinary citizens to lose jobs and those affected by floods struggle, public officials should not be complacent in their stable positions and must be able to feel the pain of citizens as if it were the pain of their own families.

Additionally, Mayor Baek stated, "When forming various committees or appointing committee members, ensure that open-minded citizens participate in committee activities, and approach the operations with an attitude of change and innovation so that irrational decision-making does not result from being trapped in past frameworks or molds."