Creating Jangan-gu as the No. 1 District for Safety and Welfare, Including Construction of Comprehensive Safety Center

Candidate Choi In-sang (55, Saenuri Party) has announced his candidacy for the June 4 local elections as a Gyeonggi Provincial Assembly member (2nd electoral district, comprising Yulcheon, Jeongja 1, Jeongja 2, and Jeongja 3 districts).

Candidate Choi stated, "I will expand opportunities for social participation among women with interrupted careers and full-time housewives through establishing employment centers in the region, providing vocational training, job placement, and operating childcare facilities," and promised, "I will construct multipurpose gymnasiums in elementary, middle, and high schools to support students' school meal services, physical education, and cultural activities."

His main pledges were presented by target groups (women, elderly and disabled persons, and youth) and by sector (transportation and safety). For women, he pledged ▲establishing and operating women-exclusive job search and placement centers, expanding employment education and job referrals ▲actively fostering and supporting women-exclusive social enterprises to promote women's social and economic activities in the region ▲establishing and supporting infant and toddler care centers to support stable social activities for women in their 30s and 40s.

For the elderly and disabled, he pledged ▲creating part-time jobs for seniors ▲utilizing regional senior community centers as elderly care centers, providing educational support and conducting regular health checkups ▲constructing multipurpose comprehensive sports facilities for the disabled and operating them as rehabilitation treatment centers ▲improving treatment of social welfare facility workers to provide stable welfare services.

For youth, he pledged ▲expanding children and youth mental health centers and implementing prevention education for violence, bullying, and sexual crimes ▲operating and actively supporting school violence prevention centers within schools ▲minimizing blind spots in schools and crime-prone areas through installing wide-angle cameras ▲supporting construction of multipurpose gymnasiums at each school to strengthen youth fitness and support cultural activities.

In other sector pledges, for transportation, he proposed ▲promoting the establishment of Nosong Station (tentative name) near SK Skyview and Jangan Hillstate apartments, and for safety, he proposed ▲supporting school violence prevention organizations ▲construction of a comprehensive safety center.