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

Park Heung-seok, the Saenuri Party's preliminary candidate for Suwon mayor, said on the 27th: "We share the understanding that the financial stability of citizens is premised on the stability of the civil service." He added, "Whatever changes may come, I will take the lead in preventing factors that become obstacles or hindrances to civil servants in performing their duties."

Through a press release on that day, the preliminary candidate stated, "King Jeongjo's balanced personnel policy was also the starting point when he established Hwaseong New Town by appointing practical scholars such as Jung Yak-yong, who had been excluded due to factional disputes." He emphasized, "Balanced personnel appointments based on merit rather than academic background and personal connections are the driving force for municipal development."

To achieve this, the preliminary candidate stressed, "It is important to eliminate the practice of giving preferential treatment only to support department staff and ensure that civil servants working in demanding field-oriented departments do not fall behind in promotion appointments."

The preliminary candidate further stated, "By introducing a fair performance evaluation system based on work results, there should be no cases where specific individuals receive disadvantageous treatment or receive promotion privileges." He added, "As for imbalanced personnel appointments through specific academic networks that cause aftereffects in appointments, such appointments are simply not possible for me."