Pyeongtaek City to Eliminate Business Challenges with 'Business SOS System'

Pyeongtaek City (Mayor Kim Seon-ki) announced on the 27th that it plans to establish and operate the 'Business SOS System' this year to run a demand-oriented, customized system for resolving business challenges.

The 'Business SOS System' is a business support system that operates SOS on-site response teams in coordination with relevant departments and related agencies when various business challenges arise—including funding, infrastructure, workforce, market development, and technology certification—to resolve civil complaints.

Starting in March with a one-team-leader-two-business-mentorship program, the city plans to implement diverse detailed initiatives including quarterly ombudsman advisory committee meetings, meetings in industrial park clusters, small business environment improvement projects (2 locations, 920 million won), composition of the Business SOS support unit and continuous operation of on-site response teams, and ongoing removal of "thorns in the side" of businesses.

Notably, Pyeongtaek City processed 372 business challenges last year through Business SOS on-site response team operations and received excellent evaluations including top honors in the business environment sector at the Local Autonomy Management Convention and superior ratings in the Gyeonggi Province Business SOS System evaluation.

Mayor Kim Seon-ki of Pyeongtaek said, "I will pursue service-oriented, field-focused administration so that businesses can focus solely on management, and together with attracting world-class enterprises like Samsung and LG Electronics, I will lay the foundation for an advanced industrial city."