Gyeonggi Province Promotes 'Dedicated Delivery Vehicle Parking Spaces' at 27 Business Divisions and Public Institutions

[Suwon Ilbo=Park No-hun Reporter] Gyeonggi Province announced on the 15th that it is promoting a project to create ‘dedicated delivery vehicle parking spaces’ in cooperation with provincial business divisions and public institutions.

This is part of realizing the goal of the 7th Popular Election administration, ‘a fair world where labor is respected,’ with the aim of alleviating the labor intensity and resolving parking inconveniences for delivery workers who deliver shipments to public institutions, while guaranteeing rest time.

In particular, the characteristic feature is that dedicated parking spaces are created as close as possible to building entrances, minimizing the movement between vehicles and delivery locations.

The target institutions for creation include a total of 27 organizations such as Gyeonggi Provincial Animal Hygiene Test Institute, Marine and Fisheries Resources Research Institute, Namhansanseong World Heritage Center, Gyeonggi Housing and Urban Development Corporation, Gyeonggi Economic Science Promotion Foundation, and Startup Campus, and Gyeonggi Technopark.

Of these, 25 institutions have completed construction, and the remaining 2 institutions plan to complete the project by the end of April at the earliest or by the end of the first half of the year at the latest. Through this, a total of 36 ‘dedicated delivery vehicle parking spaces’ will be created with 1-2 spaces per institution parking lot.

Along with this, the ‘unmanned parcel lockers’ currently operated at the Provincial Government Building (North Building and South Building) will also be expanded to provincial business divisions and public institutions. Installation has been completed at 10 institutions so far, and plans are in place to complete installation at 3 institutions by the first half of this year.

The ‘unmanned parcel locker’ operates by allowing delivery workers to store packages in the locker without having to find individuals personally, then send a notification text message, after which the recipient retrieves the item themselves.

Through this, the labor intensity of delivery workers, who previously had to go around offices delivering packages individually, is expected to be significantly reduced, and there is also the advantage that delivery is easily possible even when recipients are absent.

Kim Gyu-sik, Director of the Department of Labor, stated, “We have installed dedicated delivery vehicle parking spaces and unmanned parcel lockers to reduce labor intensity and increase rest time for delivery workers,” and added, “Going forward, while these are small efforts, we will continue to discover projects that can provide practical help to mobile workers engaged in arduous work.”

Meanwhile, since the 7th Popular Election administration, the province has been taking the lead in guaranteeing labor rights and improving the working environment for mobile workers through projects such as dedicated delivery vehicle parking spaces and unmanned parcel lockers, as well as creating rest shelters for mobile workers, operating heat wave and extreme cold shelters using public institutions, and supporting industrial accident insurance premiums for delivery workers.