Osan City Conducts Personnel Reshuffle Following Organizational Restructuring

Osan City carried out regular personnel changes on the 22nd following an administrative organizational restructuring.

The city restructured its administration from the current 3 bureaus, 2 offices, and 17 divisions (teams), city council, 1 affiliated agency, 2 business offices (3 divisions), 6 districts, and 96 departments to 3 bureaus, 2 offices, and 16 divisions (teams), city council, 1 affiliated agency (2 divisions), 3 business offices (6 divisions), 6 districts, and 99 departments by reducing one division (team), increasing one division in the affiliated agency, three divisions and 3 departments in business offices respectively.

Following the departmental reorganization, the city changed the name of the Welfare and Environment Bureau to the Welfare and Culture Bureau and the Environmental Capital Business Office to the Environmental Affairs Business Office at the bureau level.

Additionally, the city newly established the Social Welfare Division, Culture and Sports Division, Health and Sanitation Division, Ecological Stream Promotion Team, and Vehicle Registration Business Office.

The city also integrated the Construction Division and Disaster Management Division into the Construction and Disaster Prevention Division, and the Environmental Management Division and Resource Circulation Division into the Environmental Affairs Division of the Environmental Affairs Business Office.

The Planning and Audit Officer was renamed to Planning and Audit Director, the Public Information Officer was renamed to Public Information Director, the Resident Welfare Division was renamed to Welfare Policy Division, and the Agriculture and Forestry Division was renamed to Agriculture, Forestry and Parks Division.

Recovery support and water quality management operations, as well as the management of the Maelgumeoteo Facility, were transferred to the Ecological Stream Promotion Team, while the New Town project was discontinued due to changing operational demands.

Following this administrative organizational restructuring, the city conducted a major personnel reshuffle consisting of 38 promotions—3 Grade 5 (administrative officials), 8 Grade 6 (inspectors), 8 Grade 7 (junior inspectors), 16 Grade 8 (secretaries), and 3 functional staff (2 Grade 6, 1 Grade 7)—along with 189 employees reassigned to new positions.

This personnel reshuffle was conducted with Mayor Kwak Sang-wook selecting and assigning personnel focused on priority projects for the latter half of his tenure, while transferring civil servants who had been problematic due to the relaxation of public service discipline.

The city reorganized its structure based on the results of the administrative organization diagnostic analysis of Osan City conducted by the Korea Institute of Local Administration in August, and carried out regular personnel changes accordingly.