Suwon City Carries Out Record-Breaking Personnel Promotions... 158 Employees Promoted

Suwon City is implementing its largest-scale personnel promotion ever.

According to the city on the 18th, the promotions for grade 4 and below to be implemented on the 24th will include 3 director-level grade 4 positions, 19 grade 5 department head positions in middle management, 44 grade 6 team leader positions as operational leaders, 66 grade 7 promotions, and 26 grade 8 and below positions, totaling 158 people. This represents a historic record, accounting for 6.2% of Suwon City's workforce of 2,579 employees.

Kim Young-gyu, director of the Safety Planning and Coordination Office of Suwon City, stated at the city briefing that day, "The city's administrative organization has significantly expanded as the government has raised the standards for administrative structures and personnel quotas for cities with populations of one million or more, creating personnel reorganization factors."

The city announced that in this personnel reorganization, it thoroughly excluded personal connections based on educational background and regional ties, and actively considered performance and work-focused criteria, as well as expertise and contributions from field business departments.

In particular, in preparation for the increase and diversity of social welfare workload and taking into account the morale of the social welfare job series, Suwon City plans to promote its first-ever social welfare administrator to a female employee.

Director Kim stated, "In this personnel reorganization, we selected employees who have demonstrated capability in minority job categories such as social welfare, civil engineering, architecture, and nursing," and added, "We will create a personnel culture where employees who quietly and diligently perform their duties are favored."

He continued, "This personnel reorganization reflects the will of Mayor Yom Tae-young to promote employees who are working to resolve the anxiety, inconvenience, and dissatisfaction of citizens and to transform Suwon City so that citizens can be happy."

According to the city, the Ministry of Interior and Safety on the 2nd of last month added "cities with populations of 1 million or more" for the first time to the local government classification in the "Regulations on Administrative Structures and Personnel Standards for Local Governments," adjusting position-based standards.

Accordingly, Suwon City will have the foundation to appoint a total of 3 grade 3 positions, with one newly created last year due to increased basic personnel costs and 2 additional positions to be added in the future.

The city views this upgrade in administrative structures and personnel standards as having firmly established its status as a major city, and it plans to concentrate administrative efforts on realizing amendments to the Local Autonomy Act centered on the introduction of "special metropolitan cities with populations of 1 million or more."

Director Kim stated, "With the expansion of administrative structures, Suwon City civil servants have increased promotion opportunities, and they have been provided sufficient motivation to demonstrate their capabilities," and added, "Taking this opportunity of being recognized for major city status, we will make every effort to introduce special metropolitan cities where financial resources and authority are guaranteed."