Strengthening Suwon's Capacity as a Megacity of 1.1 Million

Suwon City, as the nation's largest local autonomous entity with a population of 1.1 million, plans to establish an administrative foundation befitting its scale while strengthening capacity to address pending issues and enhancing open administrative services.

The city will strengthen the Conference of Mayors of Large Cities Nationwide and the South Gyeonggi Province Conference of Mayors to establish an administrative foundation commensurate with Suwon's status as a large metropolitan city and to cooperate with other local governments in addressing shared concerns.

Regarding various pending issues in the Suwon region, the city has decided to seek city development plans by regularly holding administrative briefing sessions with local National Assembly members and provincial and city council members.

Following the World Health Organization (WHO) recertification of Suwon as a Safe City last year, the city plans to continue discovering safe city programs to reduce injury factors such as accidents and suicide and to ensure safety.

To maintain its status as a center for volunteering with over 115,000 volunteers registered—representing more than 10 percent of Suwon's population—the city mobilized over 20,000 volunteers from last year through April of this year to conduct volunteer work at the site of the oil spill accident in Taean.

Additionally, the city is engaged in constructing Suwon Village in Siem Reap Province, Cambodia. These active domestic and international volunteer activities have been recognized as exemplary models of local government volunteerism.

Furthermore, the city plans to reorganize its structure by consolidating resident centers and aims to build an ubiquitous city through a digital administrative system combining media and administrative services via Happy Suwon Broadcasting (HSB) and Happy Suwon News.