Why Did Seong Jang-hyun, Yongsan District Mayor, Declare This Year as the 'Year of Proactive Administration'?

Establishment of Proactive Administration Implementation Plan... Formalized as a Key Policy for the District... Audit Officer Designated as Dedicated Department... Initiatives for Pre-Consulting, Training, and Performance Management... Selection of Best Practices and Outstanding Officials with Incentives in the Second Half of This Year

Seong Jang-hyun, Mayor of Yongsan District

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Yongsan-gu (Mayor Seong Jang-hyun) has declared 2020 as the "Year of Proactive Administration," drawing attention.

At the end of last year, the district established an execution plan for proactive administration under the mayor's directive. This formalized proactive administration as a key policy of the district.

According to the plan, the district designated the Audit Officer as the department responsible for proactive administration. The Audit Officer oversees overall management and operation, pre-consultation, education, performance management, discovery of best practices, and selection of outstanding public officials.

Supporting departments include the Administrative Support Division and the Planning and Budget Division. The Administrative Support Division, responsible for personnel, will provide incentives to outstanding proactive public officials, while the Planning and Budget Division will promptly support legal advice and case review related to work promotion.

Pre-consultation is a system where, in cases of difficulty interpreting regulations or guidelines, opinions on interpretation are sought in advance from the audit department according to the "Enforcement Decree of the Act on Public Audits (Article 13-2)."

When a department requests consultation, the Audit Officer provides opinions either internally or through review by external experts (Personnel Committee). If internal response is difficult, consultation can be requested from the Seoul City Audit Department (first stage) or central administrative agencies (second stage).

Even if legal disputes or budget waste arise from matters that underwent pre-consultation, the district plans not to impose disadvantages on the responsible personnel or to partially mitigate such measures.

In the second half of this year, outstanding cases of proactive administration and excellent public officials will be selected. Each department (dong) will recommend best cases, and after performance verification, working meetings, and Personnel Committee review, recipients will be selected and provided with various incentives.

Main incentives include ▲reward leave ▲transfer to desired departments ▲priority selection for training ▲commendations ▲priority allocation of resorts. Depending on the level of achievement, the district will grant appropriate incentives to the respective employees.

The district regularly conducts proactive administration education to inform employees about these systems and project purposes. Additionally, related booklets will be produced and distributed to all departments (dong) and district-funded and affiliated institutions.

Seong Jang-hyun, Mayor of Yongsan-gu, said, "In the era of local autonomy, frontline public officials' proactive administration is increasingly shining," and added, "We will create an organizational culture where hardworking public officials are respected."

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