Suwon City Makes 'All-Out' Effort to Promote New Road Address System

Suwon City announced that it is making an all-out effort in promotional activities to foster the use of road addresses in daily life and ensure early adoption ahead of the full implementation of the road address system in 2014.

The city set up a road address promotion booth at the Gyeonggi Marathon event held on April 15, distributing hand massagers, guidebooks, and house-by-house stickers to citizens to promote the use of road addresses.

In particular, the city has produced 50,000 stickers that residents living in single-family houses can write their own addresses on and attach to building entrances and other locations to promote correct understanding and use of home road addresses. The stickers are being distributed through each district office and community service centers.

Additionally, since February, the city has been printing road address promotional messages on two types of incinerator garbage bags to raise awareness of road addresses in daily life, and since April, has attached large promotional banners using construction fencing at six major construction sites including LH residential environment improvement projects.

The city established the institutional framework for the road address system when the Road Address Act was enacted and enforced in April 2007, and built information systems and basic data for managing road address electronic maps. It has also completed the installation of road name signs and building number plates to guide road names, creating the foundation for using road addresses.

Yun Su-hyun, director of the Land Information Division, said "We will continue to pursue community-oriented promotional activities and do our best to ensure the settlement of the new address system," and urged citizens to "actively participate in using the new address for its swift establishment."

The road address system is a new addressing method in which names are given to roads and buildings are assigned numbers sequentially along the roads, with addresses indicated by road names and building numbers. It is an internationally standardized address system that has been used for a long time in almost all developed countries, including G20 nations, except for some local governments in Japan.