'Neighboring Districts' Incheon Yeonsu-gu and Gyeonggi Siheung-si... Joint Development Agreement on Transportation Convenience and More

Early Opening of Incheon~Ansan Expressway and Promotion of Subway Connection Project

Incheon Yeonsu District Mayor Go Nam-seok (right) and Gyeonggi Siheung Mayor Lim Byung-taek are taking a commemorative photo after signing the "Mutual Cooperation and Joint Development Agreement." January 10, 2020. Photo by Incheon Yeonsu District

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyesook] Incheon Yeonsu-gu and Gyeonggi Siheung-si, which are geographically close, have signed an agreement for mutual cooperation and joint development.

On the 10th, Yeonsu-gu Mayor Go Nam-seok and Siheung-si Mayor Lim Byeong-taek exchanged an agreement focusing on mutual cooperation to seek joint measures to improve residents' transportation convenience, such as the early opening of the Incheon?Ansan Expressway (Second Outer Ring Road) and the promotion of the subway connection project.

Accordingly, these local governments plan to form a joint consultative body and operate practical TF teams in each field to continuously promote efforts for substantial joint development.

Currently, Yeonsu-gu and Siheung-si share similar pending issues such as hospital establishment linked with universities (Seoul National University, Yonsei University) and fostering new industrial hubs. In particular, with Siheung-si recently designated as a preliminary Free Economic Zone, the heads of the two local governments recognized the need to explore ways for the two local governments to coexist and develop together given their common conditions.

Yeonsu-gu Mayor Go Nam-seok emphasized, "This agreement is meaningful in that the two local governments have established a developmental relationship from a national and macro perspective on various pending issues," adding, "We will promote win-win cooperation so that the two local governments can move forward together in the future, discover joint policy tasks, and build a close cooperative system to create synergy effects."

At the signing ceremony, Jo Jeong-sik, a member of the National Assembly from the Democratic Party representing Gyeonggi Siheung-eul, attended to congratulate the agreement and promised to actively support the two local governments in enhancing each other's competitiveness and setting a precedent for mutual development.

Meanwhile, in December last year, Yeonsu-gu and Siheung-si, along with Namdong-gu in Incheon and the Korea Environment Corporation, signed a four-party business agreement to form the 'Metropolitan West Coast Environmental Joint Consultative Body.'

According to the agreement, the consultative body plans to share civil complaint contents and conduct joint inspections of odor-emitting business sites. It also agreed to establish a fund for facility improvements at odor-emitting sites and to jointly resolve odor issues through technical support.

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