Osan City's Daewon 2-dong and Sinjang 2-dong to Open on January 2 Next Year with Service Launch

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Lee Su-won] Osan City announced on the 6th that it will open administrative welfare centers in Daewon 2-dong and Sinjang 2-dong respectively and commence operations starting January 2 next year to address increasingly complex and diverse administrative service demands.

Daewon-dong and Sinjang-dong each have populations exceeding 60,000, resulting in overcrowding that has led to longer wait times for civil complaints and potential deterioration in the quality of administrative and welfare services. The necessity of division (分洞) has been consistently raised, and the division work has been pursued through various channels of opinion gathering, including resident briefing sessions.

Accordingly, Daewon-dong will be separated into Daewon 1-dong and 2-dong based on Dongbu-daero, while Sinjang-dong will be divided into Sinjang 1-dong and 2-dong based on the Line 1 railroad.

Specifically, Daewon-dong, which currently has a population of approximately 64,000, will be divided with Daewon 1-dong having approximately 45,000 residents and Daewon 2-dong having approximately 19,000, while Sinjang-dong, with a population of approximately 60,000, will be split with Sinjang 1-dong having approximately 36,000 residents and Sinjang 2-dong having approximately 24,000.

The city projects that according to future development plans, the population of Daewon 2-dong will grow to approximately 53,000, and Sinjang 2-dong to approximately 42,000.

Upon completion of the division, Osan City's administrative system will be reorganized from six administrative dongs (Junggang-dong, Daewon-dong, Namchon-dong, Sinjang-dong, Sema-dong, and Chopyeong-dong) that have been operated since the city's establishment in 1989, to eight administrative dongs (the existing six dongs plus Daewon 2-dong and Sinjang 2-dong).

Meanwhile, the Daewon 2-dong Administrative Welfare Center is located at 332-13 Dongbu-daero, Osan City, 1st floor of Building A (Gohyeon-dong, The Terra Square), and the Sinjang 2-dong Administrative Welfare Center is located at 48 Naesaetmi-ro 79-gil, Osan City, 3rd-4th floors (Sujeong-dong, Leaders Plaza).