Icheon Achieves 1st Place in '2025 Gyeonggi Province Summer Natural Disaster Comprehensive Evaluation'

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Eom In-yong] Icheon City announced on the 18th that it has been selected as the top-ranked municipality in the '2025 Gyeonggi Province Summer Natural Disaster (Typhoon and Heavy Rain) Comprehensive Evaluation' for its thorough advance preparedness and outstanding disaster response capabilities.

Following its selection as the top-ranked municipality in the comprehensive evaluation, Icheon has secured commendations from the Gyeonggi Province governor for the organization and individuals (1 commendation for civil servants, 2 for individuals), as well as 450 million won in performance incentive funding from the first half of 2026 business budget.

Amid changing weather conditions and increasing risks from extreme downpours, the city focused on prevention and preparedness, responding swiftly to situations and achieved zero loss of life and minimal property damage.

In particular, this year the city strengthened facility inspections by designating and managing 10 areas of concern for loss of life, replacing and maintaining pumps at drainage pump stations, and installing 10 flood and slope hazard detection warning systems.

The city received high scores in evaluation items including ▲disaster prevention project implementation ▲advance preparedness inspections during summer ▲disaster situation response during hazardous weather ▲establishment of inter-agency cooperation systems, and the joint patrols of flood-prone areas by autonomous disaster prevention groups, inspection and maintenance of storm drains, and damage recovery activities were evaluated as excellent cases of private sector cooperation in flood and wind damage response.

This first-place selection in the comprehensive evaluation, along with the national disaster management achievement three-award winning performance in May [Organization commendation from the Minister of the Interior and Safety, Icheon City Volunteer Center (organization) Prime Minister's commendation, Icheon City Autonomous Disaster Prevention Group Leader Kim Nam-seong (individual) Presidential commendation], served as another opportunity to demonstrate Icheon's disaster response capabilities.

Mayor Kim Gyeong-hee stated, "Our city's selection as an exemplary municipality is above all thanks to the active participation of all departments, related agencies, and our citizens," and added, "Based on this evaluation result, we will further enhance our disaster response system to minimize damage from natural disasters in winter (heavy snow and extreme cold)."