Uiwang City Establishes Comprehensive Measures for Lunar New Year Holiday Public Services

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Yu Je-seong] Uiwang City announced on the 11th that it has established a "Lunar New Year Holiday Comprehensive Measures" plan to minimize administrative gaps during the holiday period, ensuring all citizens have a safe and comfortable holiday. The city will operate situational response teams composed of 11 divisions and 167 personnel across different sectors.

This Lunar New Year Holiday Comprehensive Measures plan will be operated for five days from the 14th to the 18th, with a comprehensive situation room (duty operations) and a separately organized situational response headquarters coordinating across sectors. The plan was prepared to address civil complaints in areas closely related to residents' daily lives—including △health △emergency medical care △residential waste △water and sewage △cemetery management △disaster and emergency response—and to prepare for various disasters and accidents.

First, the situational response teams plan to intensively implement price, distribution, and sanitation management starting before the holiday, and will work to stabilize holiday season prices through monitoring of holiday season commodity prices.

In preparation for various emergency situations including natural and social disasters, the city will conduct joint inspections with related agencies including Uiwang Fire Station to identify fire-vulnerable facilities such as electrical, gas, and fire safety systems at traditional markets and large-scale retail stores, and will immediately address any deficiencies.

Additionally, the city will strengthen safety inspections and protection of major water and sewage facilities, conduct inspections on water supply facility abnormalities and implement measures to repair leakage and frozen pipe facilities, minimizing citizen inconvenience caused by severe winter weather.

Meanwhile, the city plans to provide information on clinics, hospitals, and pharmacies operating during the Lunar New Year holiday through the city website, roadside electronic signboards, bus stop information displays, and medical institutions and pharmacies within the city. Related information will also be provided through the 120 Gyeonggi-do Call Center and the 129 Health and Welfare Call Center.

Garbage collection during the Lunar New Year holiday period will take place on the 14th and 16th. On non-collection days, mobile cleaning teams will operate to maintain city cleanliness and actively respond to garbage-related civil complaints.

Additionally, on Lunar New Year's Day, free shuttle buses will operate for visitors to Uiwang Sky Rest Park from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 30-minute intervals (Uiwang Station → in front of Seohae Grand Belle (toward City Hospital) → via Omaegi Village intersection), and online memorial and grave-tending services (sky.15774129.go.kr) will also be available during the holiday period.

Mayor Kim Sung-je stated, "As we welcome the new year, I hope all citizens will spend a happy and safe Lunar New Year holiday with their families," and added, "We will do our best to minimize inconvenience to citizens during the holiday period."