Osan City Confirms 2026 Budget of 888.48 Billion Won

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Park Chan-hyuk] Osan City announced on the 21st that it has confirmed the 2026 budget at 888.48 billion won.

According to the city, this year's budget increased by 162 million won (0.02%) compared to last year (888.32 billion won), and consists of 743.005 billion won in general accounts and 145.477 billion won in special accounts.

The 2026 budget was finalized after passing through the 3rd regular session of the 2nd regular session of the 298th Osan City Council.

Mayor Lee Gwon-jae explained, "This is an austerity budget in which actual available resources have decreased after excluding mandatory expenses and designated-use expenses such as rising personnel costs and increased welfare spending."

In particular, the city emphasized that with regard to the 2026 budget, it prioritized "citizens' lives and safety" above all, concentrating on creating an environment where people can feel secure in their daily lives by expanding disaster prevention facilities and strengthening living safety infrastructure. The city also emphasized its focus on △proactively establishing the foundation for a self-sufficient connect city of 500,000 population △improving transportation infrastructure and guaranteeing citizens' mobility rights △improving administrative convenience and citizen safety and welfare △creating citizen culture and healing spaces.

Additionally, the city strengthened pre-inspection and repair budgets for multi-use facilities to ensure citizen safety. The city reorganized its living area safety management system by incorporating safety inspection budgets for public institutions and playgrounds and other multi-use facilities (approximately 650 million won) and safety inspections, repairs, and maintenance for bridges and tunnels (2.54 billion won).

Moreover, the city also compiled budgets for expanding urban infrastructure. These include fund transfers for the Gyeongbu railway grade separation road construction project (11 billion won), land acquisition for Segyo Terminal (26.6 billion won), and construction of an administrative welfare center in Sinjang 2-dong (5.8 billion won), with plans to accelerate improvements to urban infrastructure and enhancement of residential environments.

Additionally, the city confirmed hosting the Gyeonggi Provincial Sports Games for the first time since its city designation, with 27th and 28th editions to be held. This includes gymnasium renovation (4 billion won) and construction of Sema Baseball Stadium for sports facility improvement (450 million won).

In the land and regional development sector, subsidies for apartment complex nighttime landscape lighting for urban views (400 million won), subsidy support projects for maintenance of aged apartment complexes (350 million won), and creation of citizen cultural spaces including Seorang Reservoir citizen healing space project (4.4 billion won) and Unam 2nd Children's Park remodeling project (300 million won) are included.

In the transportation sector, K-pass public transportation fare reimbursement support (4.18 billion won), Segyo District 2 regional transportation improvement measures (1.05 billion won), Osan City regional transportation improvement basic planning consulting (400 million won), and child protection zone improvement projects (1.68 billion won) are included. In the education sector, native English online education support (180 million won), student career and college guidance support (260 million won), residential experience learning support for middle school students (370 million won), school environment improvement cooperation projects (720 million won), elementary school enrollment celebration payments (200 million won), and AI coding school education (270 million won) are included.

In the welfare sector, childbirth incentives (305 million won), feminine hygiene product support for women and youth (approximately 950 million won), veteran honor allowances (310 million won), cremation incentive support (210 million won), and child allowance support (19.15 billion won) are among the items included.