Park Heung-seok: "Balanced Personnel Appointments as Starting Point for Municipal Development"

Park Heung-seok, a preliminary candidate for Suwon mayor from the Saenuri Party, said on the 27th that "the stability of citizens' livelihoods is premised on the stability of the civil service, and we share this understanding," adding "regardless of any changes, I will take the lead in preventing factors that could hinder or obstruct civil servants in carrying out their duties."

Through a press release on the same day, the preliminary candidate said, "The starting point of balanced personnel appointments was also when King Jeongjo appointed practical scholars like Jeong Yak-yong, who had been excluded due to factional strife, to construct Hwaseong new city," emphasizing that "balanced personnel appointments based on merit, rather than academic background and connections, are the driving force for municipal development."

To this end, the preliminary candidate emphasized, "It is important to eliminate the practice of only showing preferential treatment to support department staff and to ensure that civil servants working in demanding, field-oriented departments are not left behind in promotion appointments."

The preliminary candidate also said, "We should introduce a fair performance evaluation system based on work results so that no specific individual receives personnel disadvantages or promotion favoritism," adding "such imbalanced personnel appointments through specific academic networks that cause aftereffects from personnel decisions are not possible for me."