Guro-gu Selected as ‘Best Institution’ in Seoul Land and Cadastral Management Performance Evaluation

[Seoul District News] Guro-gu Receives High Praise for Individual Land Price SMS Alerts, Complete Parcel Digitization, and Comprehensive Development Project Survey... Dongdaemun-gu Selected as Excellent District for 3 Consecutive Years in Seoul Outdoor Advertising Quality Evaluation... Gwangjin-gu Chosen as Excellent Local Government in Ministry of Health and Welfare Childcare Policy Evaluation... Songpa-gu Secures 100 Million KRW Incentive for 6 Consecutive Years as Excellent Traffic Environment District... Seodaemun-gu Selected as Excellent Local Government in 2021 Resident Participation Budget System

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Guro-gu (Mayor Lee Seong) was selected as the ‘Best Institution’ in the real estate appraisal category in the ‘2021 Land and Cadastral Management Work Evaluation’ hosted by Seoul City.

The ‘Land and Cadastral Management Work Evaluation’ is conducted annually by Seoul City to evaluate overall land and cadastral work, share best practices, and promote system improvements.

This year, Seoul City evaluated the work performance in five areas?real estate appraisal, land policy, real estate management, spatial surveying, and cadastral readjustment?across 25 autonomous districts and selected outstanding institutions.

Guro-gu implemented trusted administration by providing a customized mobile text alert service for residents who find it difficult to access individual official land prices online, and by building a database of on-site survey photos for all parcels in Guro-gu to ensure fair individual official land price decisions.

Additionally, the district was highly praised for actively promoting administration by conducting a comprehensive investigation of development projects to thoroughly impose and collect development charges, realizing fair taxation, and increasing non-tax revenue.

A Guro-gu official said, “Achieving good results in this year’s land and cadastral management work evaluation was possible thanks to the organic cooperation between staff and residents,” adding, “We will continue to do our best to protect residents’ property rights and provide trusted land and cadastral administration.”

Dongdaemun-gu (Mayor Yoo Deok-yeol) was selected as an excellent autonomous district for three consecutive years in the ‘Outdoor Advertising Quality Improvement Evaluation’ conducted among 25 autonomous districts by Seoul City, and will receive priority support for Seoul City subsidies this year.

The ‘2021 Seoul City Outdoor Advertising Quality Improvement Evaluation’ selects outstanding autonomous districts by evaluating 10 items in three areas: outdoor advertising maintenance and crackdown, improvement of signboard quality, and administrative matters, based on performance from September 2020 to August 2021.

Last year, the district removed 89 illegal fixed advertisements and issued 267 administrative dispositions, and also worked hard to maintain advertisements by removing 4,173 illegal floating advertisements and issuing 85 administrative dispositions.

It also received high evaluations in outdoor advertising management and signboard quality improvement. Last year, it conducted 512 safety inspections of outdoor advertisements and removed 145 ownerless aged signboards, and promoted signboard improvement projects in 172 locations around Dapsimni Intersection in 2020 and around Hoegi Station intersection and Hyehwa University area in 2021.

In particular, the signboard improvement project around Hoegi Station intersection and Hyehwa University area last year was recognized for efforts to create beautiful streets by actively participating as the only district in the Korean Electric Power Corporation’s LED signboard replacement support project and securing additional subsidies.

Yoo Deok-yeol, Mayor of Dongdaemun-gu, said, “Despite difficulties in advertising crackdown work due to COVID-19, we achieved good results thanks to the active cooperation of residents,” and added, “We will continue to actively promote advertising maintenance projects to create a safe and pleasant urban environment and strive to foster a proper advertising culture.”

Gwangjin-gu (Mayor Kim Seon-gap) was selected as an excellent local government in the ‘2021 Childcare Policy Excellent Local Government Evaluation’ hosted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare.

This evaluation reviewed seven areas including contribution to improving childcare teacher treatment, childcare center safety management performance, expansion of public childcare, and COVID-19 response. Gwangjin-gu was especially recognized for its high score in the ‘COVID-19 response’ category.

Last year, Gwangjin-gu supported childcare centers with protective supplies such as masks and hand sanitizers to create a safe childcare environment. Considering the COVID-19 situation, it also conducted non-face-to-face online education using play kits for children and made efforts to provide various educational and cultural performance programs.

The Ministry of Health and Welfare annually evaluates childcare project performance across 243 local governments nationwide, selecting excellent institutions to boost morale and spread best practices, thereby promoting the development of local childcare policies.

Following this selection as an excellent local government, Gwangjin-gu plans to take the lead in actively promoting childcare policies and responding to childcare institution quarantine this year as well.

Kim Seon-gap, Mayor of Gwangjin-gu, said, “Thanks to the dedication and efforts of everyone in the childcare field and related officials, Gwangjin-gu was able to achieve good results,” adding, “We will continue to strive tirelessly to discover childcare policies that residents can feel.”

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Songpa-gu (Mayor Park Seong-su) announced that it was selected as an excellent district in the ‘2021 Autonomous District Traffic Demand Management Evaluation’ hosted by Seoul City.

Park Seong-su, Mayor of Songpa-gu, said, “With this award, Songpa-gu has been selected as an ‘Excellent District’ for six consecutive years since 2016, proving the excellence of its traffic environment.”

The ‘Traffic Demand Management Evaluation’ is conducted annually by Seoul City targeting 25 autonomous districts to facilitate smooth urban traffic flow and efficient use of traffic facilities. Evaluation indicators include the imposition and collection performance of traffic inducement charges, corporate traffic demand management performance, and special policies.

The district achieved a 97% collection rate by encouraging payment of traffic inducement charges and actively guided companies on traffic reduction programs such as ‘car-sharing use’ and ‘installation of eco-friendly vehicle charging facilities,’ leading to active participation.

It also created a bicycle-friendly city through bicycle insurance and bicycle highway construction, and established a safe electric scooter usage environment by operating dedicated electric scooter parking racks and safety education programs, resulting in a reduction effect on passenger car use.

Additionally, efforts to improve pedestrian-priority crosswalk systems, such as installing diagonal crosswalks and crosswalks to improve access to the Tancheon section of the Songpa Dulle-gil trail, received favorable evaluations.

With this excellent district selection, the district will receive a total of 2.85 billion KRW in collection grants, including a 100 million KRW incentive, which is an increase of 170 million KRW (6%) compared to the previous year.

Park Seong-su, Mayor of Songpa-gu, said, “Thanks to the active participation of residents and companies through bicycle and public transportation use, we achieved meaningful results,” adding, “We will continue to proactively implement projects in line with changing environments such as car-sharing and electric scooters to create a pleasant traffic environment in Songpa-gu, a key traffic hub.”

Seodaemun-gu (Mayor Moon Seok-jin) announced on the 5th that it was selected as an excellent institution in the ‘2021 Resident Participation Budget System Evaluation’ conducted recently by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety among local governments nationwide, receiving a ministerial citation and securing a special grant of 60 million KRW.

The Ministry of the Interior and Safety selects excellent local governments annually in comprehensive and special categories to revitalize the resident participation budget system.

The district received an excellent evaluation in the ‘comprehensive category,’ which assesses resident education, system improvement, excellent policies, and cases.

Seodaemun-gu, with an 11-year history of resident participation budgeting, was praised for being the first in the nation to operate the preparation of resident opinion statements on settlement (draft) documents.

Also, holding a ‘reconsideration discussion meeting’ between proposers and related officials regarding proposals deemed difficult to implement among resident participation budget proposals was highly rated in the excellent policy category and cited as a major reason for the award.

The special category is selected when achievements are made in specific areas such as youth and young adult participation, resident education, and online and mobile operation.

Among 90 metropolitan and basic local governments that applied last year, 14, including Seodaemun-gu, received comprehensive awards, and 8 received special awards. These award-winning cases are shared with 243 local governments nationwide.

Moon Seok-jin, Mayor of Seodaemun-gu, said, “We will continue to enhance the transparency and efficiency of local financial management through revitalizing the resident participation budget system.”

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