Government to Introduce 'Large Waste Easy Disposal System' Nationwide Within the Year... Seven Key Focus Tasks Selected

Minister Jeon Hae-cheol Chairs 'Regional Community Innovation Officers Meeting' with Participation from 17 Cities and Provinces
Promotion of Emergency Vehicle Automatic Entry/Exit System and Mobile Call Service for Transportation-Disadvantaged Users

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] The Ministry of the Interior and Safety will introduce a mobile-based "Large Waste Easy Disposal System" within the year to alleviate residents' inconvenience in purchasing large waste disposal stickers and to enable waste collection companies to immediately identify the timing and location of waste disposal.

On the 28th, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety held a "Local Community Innovation Responsible Officers Meeting" with the participation of 17 cities and provinces, chaired by Minister Jeon Hae-cheol, covering this content. This meeting was organized to focus the capabilities of the central and local governments on nationwide expansion of the "7 Major Resident-Centered Tasks" with high resident satisfaction, which are among the innovation achievements pursued together with local governments over the past four years.

The Ministry selected high resident-impact tasks from excellent local administrative innovation cases previously promoted by local governments, including the introduction of the large waste easy disposal system, as the "7 Major Resident-Centered Focus Tasks." Incentives such as administrative and financial support will also be provided to local governments adopting these tasks.

One of the focus tasks, the "Emergency Vehicle Automatic Entry/Exit System," assigns exclusive emergency vehicle license plates to police and fire vehicles, automatically opening vehicle entry barriers. The "Shared Laundry for Small and Medium Enterprise Workers' Work Clothes" provides collection and laundry services for heavily soiled work clothes in areas densely populated with small and micro businesses and factories. Additionally, the "Village Management Office" offers resident convenience services such as home repairs, waste disposal management, tool rental, and parcel storage in areas with poor living conditions and high welfare demand.

Furthermore, the "Mobile Transportation Vulnerable Call Service" allows transportation-vulnerable individuals to select boarding locations and bus numbers via mobile devices, with the information transmitted to the respective bus drivers. An "Integrated Livestock Manure Odor Reduction Solution," using microorganisms and foam generation/distribution devices, will be applied to livestock farms that frequently cause odor complaints. The "Local Small Business Hope Loan" supports unsecured low-interest loans for low-income and low-credit local small business owners facing economic crises, through cooperation among local residents, financial institutions, and companies.

Subsequently, the Ministry requested local governments to participate in the "Core Tasks for Local Community Innovation (7+1)" to strengthen the foundation for solving local issues through collaboration among local governments, residents, and public institutions.

The Ministry plans to expand "Communication and Cooperation Spaces by Hub" to 10 locations by 2023 and support the creation and active operation of resident activity spaces in cities, counties, and districts. The "Local Problem-Solving Platform*," a collaborative system involving residents, public institutions, experts, and local universities to discover and solve local issues, will be expanded to all cities and provinces, activating resident participation throughout the agenda discovery and implementation process.

Financial and fiscal support for local community innovation will be expanded through social funds contributed by local governments and public institutions, as well as government R&D projects aimed at solving social problems. While promptly enacting legal grounds for revitalizing local community innovation and supporting the enactment of social innovation ordinances by local governments to strengthen institutional foundations, a 'Comprehensive Data Platform' connecting ideas and human/material resources among various actors to enhance problem-solving capabilities in local communities will also be established.

Additionally, the Ministry will promote "Resident Participation Living Labs (Life Experiments)" such as "1 Region-1 Agenda-1 Living Lab," where residents directly discover local community agendas and propose solutions, and plans to nationwide expand high resident-impact achievements among excellent local administrative innovation cases, including the "7 Major Resident-Centered Focus Tasks."

Along with promoting the 7 core tasks, the Ministry will support discovering and organizing existing excellent achievements for use in solving various social problems and will expand local community innovation achievements by linking with resident participation events and domestic and international events.

Minister Jeon Hae-cheol said, "It is most important for local governments to understand the direction of innovation and actively work to expand resident-experienced achievements, which is why this meeting was organized. Going forward, please focus the capabilities of the central and local governments on spreading good cases that directly relate to residents' lives and bring tangible changes, as well as laying the foundation for sustainable local community innovation."

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