Icheon City Selects 'Top 10 Citizen Happiness News Stories of 2024'

[Suwon Ilbo=Eum In-yong reporter] Icheon City selected and announced 'Top 10 Citizen Happiness News Stories of 2024' on the 19th.

The online voting for the top 10 news stories, conducted over seven days from December 11 to 17, saw participation from 5,046 citizens (45% male, 55% female). The voting was conducted with 20 major policy projects and exemplary cases from 2024 as candidates, with each participant selecting 10 items.

The top 10 news stories selected were: △Operation of 24-hour childcare center in Icheon City △Remaining time display project for red lights at crosswalks △Comprehensive pregnancy and childbirth support in Icheon City △Doctor helicopter maintaining golden hours also deployed to military units △Expansion of emergency vehicle priority signal system △Seolbong Park renovation project △Bukhacheon riverside park camping ground development △Home health care service program, village-based primary physician system implementation △Opening of Icheon City Semiconductor Talent Development Center △Bunsu Intersection plaza improvement project.

Icheon Mayor Kim Gyeong-hee stated, "I appreciate the citizens who took interest in Icheon City's policies and participated in voting for the top 10 news stories, and we will make an all-out effort toward the final selection of the Gyeonggi-type science high school, which was a top 10 candidate." She added, "We will continue to consider citizens' perspectives and use this as motivation to implement even better policy projects."