‘Regulatory Innovation’ Administration, Busan Gijang-gun Is Alive

Gijang-gun Wins Excellence and Encouragement Awards at the 'Busan City Regulatory Innovation Best Practices Competition'

In the 2020 Busan City Regulatory Innovation Best Practice Competition, Gijang-gun won the Excellence Award and the Encouragement Award.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] Busan’s Gijang-gun won the Excellence Award and Encouragement Award at the ‘2020 Busan City Regulatory Innovation Best Practices Competition’ held by Busan City on the 2nd.

In May, it received the Grand Prize in the ‘2020 Busan City District and County Regulatory Innovation Evaluation,’ and last year it won the Encouragement Award, enjoying the joy of winning awards for two consecutive years.

This competition selected 6 cases after the first document screening from a total of 29 excellent cases submitted by the city headquarters, affiliated institutions, business offices, and 16 districts and counties in 4 fields (revitalization of the local economy, resolution of corporate difficulties, solving life inconveniences, benchmarking), and decided the final awards on the day after the second presentation screening.

Gijang-gun received the Excellence Award for the case of ‘Expanding research and training opportunities for basic local governments and laying the groundwork for increasing fishery income.’

In the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries’ ‘Guidelines for Operation and Management of Research and Training Fishing Grounds Project,’ the target institutions for the research and training fishing grounds project were limited to fisheries research institutes affiliated with ‘cities and provinces,’ but Gijang-gun negotiated with the Ministry to revise the content to include ‘cities, counties, and districts.’

As a result, it expanded research opportunities for local governments and enabled various research and development to increase the income of local fishermen.

The Encouragement Award was for the case of ‘Normalization of the establishment of Busan Comprehensive Film Studio through revision of local ordinances.’ Although a business agreement was signed in 2016 regarding the establishment of the Busan Comprehensive Film Studio within the Gijang Ceramic Tourism Healing Village, the project was delayed due to film industry workers’ objections to land usage fees. Gijang-gun created an opportunity for the project to be normalized by preparing grounds for full exemption of land usage fees through consultations with related organizations and revision of the county’s shared property ordinance.

This case laid the foundation for Gijang-gun to leap forward as a film-centered city by creating a studio equipped with large-scale indoor and outdoor shooting studios and advanced post-production facilities.

A Gijang-gun official said, “We will continue to discover various regulatory innovation tasks for local issues and strive to reduce residents’ inconveniences and revitalize the local economy through regulatory improvements via proactive administration.”

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