Jinju-si Holds 2021 Major Policy Briefing Session

Partial Rent Reduction for Small Business Shared Property, Installation of Signal Intersection Responsive Signal System

Jinju City Planning and Administration Bureau Policy Briefing Held.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] On the 16th at 11 a.m., the Planning and Administration Bureau of Jinju City, Gyeongnam Province, held a major policy briefing session at the city hall briefing room.

At the briefing, Jeong Jong-seop, head of the Planning and Administration Bureau, explained key policies under the bureau’s jurisdiction, including implementing an open administration that empathizes and communicates with citizens, creating citizen-centered open spaces, providing customized civil complaint services, additional support for rent reductions for users of public property, and the introduction of an adaptive signal system at urban intersections. He also held a Q&A session with reporters.

The city plans to operate “Dates with Citizens” more actively this year. These sessions will be held once a month, and this year, the city will diversify the operation methods by recruiting participants through SNS, conducting outreach dates, and holding talk concert-style events to expand communication opportunities with citizens and strengthen feedback.

The newly formed 2nd Citizen Communication Committee will continue more substantive activities based on the experience of the past two years.

Projects to create citizen-centered open spaces will also be promoted. In 2019, five locations including the Jiphyeon-myeon Residents’ Autonomy Center were selected for the Gyeongnam-type Living SOC public contest project. With a total budget of 3.4 billion KRW, including 1.8 billion KRW from the city, the city is carrying out a Living SOC residents’ autonomy complex project to create spaces that are practically needed by local residents.

Last month, the remodeling project of the Jiphyeon-myeon Residents’ Autonomy Center was completed, and the other four locations will finish their projects within this year to do their best to enhance the activation of the resident community.

Additionally, from this month, a seismic performance reinforcement project will be promoted to protect citizens’ lives and the safety of the city hall building from earthquakes. With a budget of 100 million KRW, seismic performance evaluations will be conducted at eight locations including the Geumgok-myeon office, and seismic performance reinforcement construction will be carried out at six locations including the Munsan-eup office with an investment of 1.63 billion KRW.

The city operates an expert civil complaint consultation corner called ‘Pulligo’ and will introduce intelligent robots in the civil service office to provide customized civil complaint services to citizens.

The expert civil complaint consultation corner ‘Pulligo’ integrates various civil complaint consultation fields, which are currently operated separately by multiple departments, into a designated day at the civil service office, thereby reducing citizens’ time and economic costs and providing convenience in daily life.

This year, intelligent robots will be introduced in the civil service office to provide city administration and civil complaint guidance services that are one step closer to citizens. The intelligent robot is an autonomous driving robot equipped with voice conversation functions, which will provide simple building guidance and civil complaint service information to citizens visiting the city hall.

To support small business owners and self-employed individuals struggling due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, the city decided to partially reduce rent for public property users again this year following last year. The support period is from last month until the end of June, and 660 million KRW will be reduced for 170 locations using public property.

Jinju City plans to do its best to become the nation’s top city for traffic convenience by introducing a traffic signal optimization system based on big data analysis to resolve urban development and traffic congestion caused by increased vehicles.

In September 2019, the city was selected for the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport’s ‘Urban Intersection Adaptive Signal System’ contest and is promoting the project with a budget of 4.4 billion KRW (2.6 billion KRW national funds and 1.8 billion KRW city funds).

Along with this project, the city plans to install a ‘Pedestrian Detection System’ to prevent crossing accidents, which is expected to greatly contribute to improving the urban traffic environment and preventing traffic accidents.

Director Jeong Jong-seop stated, “Since the launch of the 7th elected administration, Jinju City has made empathy and communication with citizens the top value of city administration and has strived to implement open administration.” He added, “We will continue to make various efforts to realize city administration that citizens desire and are satisfied with.”

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