Creating an 'Apartment Culture Without Abuse of Power' Through Mutual Consideration and Respect

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Kim Gapdong] Gyeonggi Province announced on the 19th that it will select 'Good Apartments' starting this year to promote an apartment culture free of abuse of power where residents and management staff show mutual consideration and respect.

Good Apartments will be recruited from mandatory management multi-family housing and mixed-use apartment complexes with 150 or more units within the province, divided into three groups according to unit scale: △150-less than 500 units △500-less than 1,000 units △1,000 units or more.

Specifically, the selection will be made in October through evaluation by an evaluation committee composed of private sector experts in the areas of △working environment △employment stability △human rights protection △mutual prosperity activities, selecting one complex per group for a total of three complexes.

Selected complexes will receive a Gyeonggi Province Good Apartment certification plaque and a provincial governor's commendation. For details such as application deadlines and required documents, inquiries can be made to the multi-family housing departments of each city and county.

Meanwhile, to improve the treatment of multi-family housing management staff, the province enacted the 'Gyeonggi Province Multi-family Housing Management Staff Treatment Improvement Ordinance' in January 2022, establishing institutional grounds. Subsequently, the 'Gyeonggi Province Multi-family Housing Management Rules Standard' was amended to include △harassment prohibition clauses within multi-family housing △harassment prevention and response guidelines for management staff △obligation to verify appropriate wages for management staff △standard service contract for contracts of one year or more service. From this year, 'air conditioner installation costs for security offices' has been added as one of the items in the 'Gyeonggi Province Residential Environment Improvement Support Project' and is being provided.

Park Jong-geun, head of the Multi-family Housing Division of Gyeonggi Province, said, "We have launched the Good Apartment project to protect management staff including security personnel and cleaning workers from unfair treatment such as abuse of power in multi-family housing," and "We will work to spread a multi-family housing culture where residents and management staff show consideration and respect for each other."