Starting as Suwon Special City, I Will Be With Our Citizens

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Jung Jun-sung] The 8th Civilian-Elected Term Suwon Special City Transition Committee 'Into the Field With Citizens' launched the online citizen transition committee 'Lee Jae-jun's Open Transition Committee ON' on the 13th and began securing channels for substantial citizen participation.

Lee Jae-jun, Mayor-elect of Suwon Special City, stated, "To create a citizen-centered Suwon Special City, we must find answers from the citizens," adding, "We have opened a webpage for 'Lee Jae-jun's Open Transition Committee ON' so that Suwon Special City residents can express their opinions anytime, anywhere."

Lee Jae-jun's Open Transition Committee ON (policy.suwon.go.kr) is structured with menus including ▲Transition Committee Overview ▲Announcements and Press Releases ▲Policy and Slogan Suggestions. Any Suwon Special City resident can propose policies and slogans through the webpage.

The opinions of citizens gathered through Lee Jae-jun's Open Transition Committee ON during the transition committee period are expected to be reflected in Suwon Special City policies.

Mayor-elect Lee Jae-jun's commitment to citizen-centered city administration has continued since his time as vice mayor of Suwon Special City.

When serving as Second Vice Mayor of Suwon, Mayor-elect Lee Jae-jun designed the Urban Policy Citizen Planning Group, in which citizens directly participate in city administration, for the first time in the nation. This has become an excellent case study that approximately two-thirds of local governments nationwide have benchmarked. The citizen planning group's achievements were recognized and introduced in a fourth-grade elementary school national curriculum textbook.

In this election as well, to include the needs that citizens feel in their daily lives in campaign pledges, opinions were gathered from Suwon Special City residents to create approximately 70 'GANDA (Most Relevant to Me) pledges.'

In the final stages of the election period, under the catchphrase 'All of Us Into the Field,' the campaign visited all 44 districts of Suwon Special City to conduct communication and canvassing with citizens. Additionally, the transition committee was also named 'Into the Field With Citizens,' establishing a motto that the transition committee reports to the citizens.

Mayor-elect Lee Jae-jun stated, "Starting with the Open Transition Committee ON, I will continue to listen to the voices of citizens and take the lead in realizing direct democracy," adding, "I will be with our citizens as Suwon Special City makes a new start."