Gwangju City Selects 7 Outstanding Public Officials for Proactive Administration

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[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 2nd that it selected seven public officials who contributed to the development of city administration and the enhancement of citizen convenience with proactive and creative attitudes as the ‘2020 Excellent Public Officials for Proactive Administration.’

For the first time this year, 23 cases were submitted for the selection of excellent public officials to spread the culture of proactive administration in the public service community. After a practical review, the Proactive Administration Committee finally selected six excellent cases and chose seven officials who promoted these cases as excellent public officials for proactive administration.

The highest grade was awarded to Kim Baek-hyun, a public official in the spokesperson office, who actively reflected citizens’ opinions on the homepage through proposal adoption and contributed to the preemptive establishment of a dedicated COVID-19 homepage and online application system to support COVID-19 quarantine response and livelihood stabilization measures.

The excellent grade was awarded to Ju Bo-seong, a public official in the Job Policy Division who contributed to the designation of the Gwangju Free Economic Zone, and Kwon Do-hyun, a public official in the Urban Planning Division who contributed to the restoration of urban functions suitable for the designated purpose by adjusting the floor area ratio of land use zones.

The encouragement grade was awarded to Yoon Hong-seok, a public official in the Traffic Policy Division who developed and conducted a pilot project for road surface markings at the start and end points of school zones; Wi Kyung-bok, head of the Automobile Management Team in the Public Transportation Division, and Kim Hak-song, a public official, who contributed to resolving collective complaints by deregulating registration standards for automobile sales businesses; and Kim Jong-moon, head of the CCTV Integrated Control Team in the Social Disaster Division, who contributed to budget savings by jointly using closed-circuit television (CCTV) for illegal parking enforcement in autonomous districts as security cameras.

The selected public officials will receive personnel benefits such as the highest grade of performance pay, and the excellent cases will be disseminated to spread the culture of proactive administration.

Gwangju City designated the Policy Planning Office as the dedicated department for revitalizing proactive administration and established an execution plan for proactive administration consisting of 13 core tasks in four major areas.

Oh Young-geol, the city’s Policy Planning Officer, said, “With the selection of excellent public officials for proactive administration this time, we will create an atmosphere where public officials can freely carry out proactive administration for citizens and do our best to establish a culture of proactive administration in the public service community.”

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