Governor Kim Moon-soo of Gyeonggi Province Achieves 'Highest' Promise Implementation in Nation

Governor Kim Moon-soo of Gyeonggi Province has been recording excellent results in consecutive private sector evaluations of promise implementation among 16 metropolitan governors.

According to the "Evaluation of Promise Implementation by Metropolitan Governors at the One-Year Mark of the Fourth Popularly Elected Term" announced by the Korea Manifesto Implementation Center on the 6th, Governor Kim's promise implementation score was 98.7 points, marking the highest score among the nation's 16 metropolitan governors.

Jeollanam Province followed with 97.2 points, Seoul and Busan Metropolitan City with 97 points, and Chungcheongnam Province with 96 points.

The evaluation was conducted from the 16th of last month through the 3rd of this month by an evaluation panel composed of experts from various sectors including academia and civic organizations. The promise implementation score was determined by calculating as a percentage the number of projects that failed to meet targets as of the end of June 2007 across all projects of each metropolitan government, then subtracting from a perfect score of 100 points.

Governor Kim previously received an average rating of 2.25 points out of 5 in the "Policy Implementation Process Evaluation of Metropolitan Governments at the One-Year Mark" announced by Citizens' Coalition for Economic Justice on the 2nd, ranking second nationwide after Seoul with an average rating of 2.98 points.

The Korea Manifesto Implementation Center stated, "Since this evaluation assesses activities during the first year of a four-year term, the remaining three years are increasingly important, and we will continue our evaluation activities accordingly."