Hwaseong Mayor Jung Myung-geun Concludes "New Beginning of Special City, 2025 New Year's Greeting"

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Park Chan-hyuk] Hwaseong Special City Mayor Jung Myung-geun's "New Beginning of Special City, 2025 New Year's Greeting," held together with citizens to welcome the new year, concluded successfully with enthusiastic citizen participation.

As Hwaseong Special City's first New Year's greeting, Mayor Jung visited all 29 towns, townships, and neighborhoods over four weeks from the 14th of last month through February 13th, beginning with Dongtan 9-dong and ending with Hyangnam-eup, meeting with approximately 1,700 citizens.

This greeting ceremony departed from conventional one-way speeches and reporting formats, providing opportunities for direct communication with citizens and citizen-participatory programs through which to share a new vision and celebrate the launch of the Special City.

Each town, township, and neighborhood showcased various performances reflecting regional character, including △cake cutting △congratulatory videos △sand art △hope boxes △acrostic poem recitations △balloon art △choral performances. Citizens participated in various events, exchanged New Year's greetings, and shared a warm time fostering unity.

Additionally, approximately 900 citizen suggestions from various locations were collected at this New Year's greeting ceremony and will be utilized as valuable material for discovering new policies in Hwaseong City.

By region, the western area received opinions regarding expansion of transportation infrastructure to improve road construction and tourist attraction accessibility; the eastern and Dongtan areas received opinions on establishment of metropolitan transportation networks including intercity buses and railways, and expansion of sports and cultural facilities. Beyond these, a wide range of suggestions were received regarding regional development and welfare sectors.

Mayor Jung Myung-geun stated, "Through the New Year's greeting held together with the launch of Special City on January 1st of Eulsa year, aiming to build a brilliant Hwaseong city with special citizens, we will actively and carefully review and swiftly process the diverse citizen opinions we have gathered," adding, "We ask for your continued active participation in city administration, and we will do our best so that you can proudly say 'I live in Hwaseong Special City.'"