Uiwang City Mayor Kim Sang-don Receives Top Award at '2019 Governance Local Politics Awards'

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Seo Dong-young] Uiwang City Mayor Kim Sang-don received the top award in the administrative innovation category at the '2019 Governance Local Politics Awards' held on the 1st at the Flower Expo venue inside Ilsan Lake Park in Goyang City.

The Governance Local Politics Awards are hosted by the Governance Center and sponsored by the National Conference of Mayors and Heads of Counties and Districts and the Presidential Committee on Decentralization. The awards were established to discover excellent local political activities, select leaders who have contributed to the development of local autonomy, and promote innovative local politics and advanced political systems of citizen sovereignty.

Since the launch of the 7th elected administration last year, Mayor Kim Sang-don has operated 'On-Site Administration Day,' where citizens and experts work together to realize open governance through communication and participation, listening to the voices of citizens. He also actively promoted the operation of 'policy learning meetings' to discover innovative policies. Based on the materials from the learning meetings at the end of last year, the city was selected in a policy contest conducted by Gyeonggi Province, securing 5.5 billion won in external funding.

Mayor Kim Sang-don said, "I will regard this as an encouraging message to work harder for the development of Uiwang City. Going forward, I will work hard to develop Uiwang City into a new central city of the metropolitan area where citizens are happy, together with the residents."