Mayor Sung Su-seok of Icheon: "We Will Boldly Open Doors to South Korea's Happiest City"

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Eom In-yong] Mayor Sung Su-seok of Icheon for the 9th popularly elected term held his inauguration on the 1st and began full-scale city administration for the next four years.

Mayor Sung began the day by paying respects at the Seolbong Park Memorial Tower in the morning, followed by holding his inaugural ceremony as the 9th-term Icheon mayor at the Icheon Art Hall Grand Performance Hall, attended by approximately 1,000 citizens and dignitaries from various sectors.

Through his inaugural address, Mayor Sung Sung-seok proclaimed the 9th-term city administration vision of 'Icheon, City of Converging Futures' and directly presented eight key commitments with keywords including △industrial innovation that nurtures the future △transportation city connecting growth △safe city where work and life harmonize △education city nurturing future talent △charming city with enriched daily life △lifelong welfare security city △sustainable future agricultural city △administrative innovation with citizen participation, presenting a blueprint to emerge as South Korea's future growth engine city.

Additionally, announcing the city administration slogan 'Connected Icheon, Smile Icheon,' he conveyed a firm plan to prioritize open communication with citizens and create a city where all citizens are happy.

Mayor Sung Su-seok stated, "I will boldly open doors to a city where citizens are true owners, a city where being an Icheon citizen becomes the greatest source of pride, and South Korea's happiest city that anyone would want to visit and where anyone would want to live."