Gyeonggi-do to Conduct 'Comprehensive Audit' of Uijeongbu City Starting from the 24th of This Month

Gyeonggi Provincial Government Gwanggyo New Office Building

[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Gyeonggi Province will conduct a comprehensive audit of Uijeongbu City from the 24th of this month until the 10th of next month. In particular, the province will receive reports from residents through various channels prior to this audit.

The province plans to prioritize reviewing reports from residents to broadly listen to various inconveniences experienced by residents during the administrative processes of Uijeongbu City.

The key audit areas include ▲inconveniences caused by passive administration ▲illegal or improper handling of permits and approvals such as corruption ▲requests for improvement of unreasonable systems and practices ▲corruption and deviant behavior by public officials ▲fraudulent claims on public finances and illegal operations.

However, matters involved in investigations or trials, issues related to private rights or concerns about privacy infringement, and matters audited or being audited by other agencies will be excluded from the audit.

Reports can be submitted by directly visiting the audit office (Uijeongbu City Hall 1st floor auditorium) from the 17th of this month until the end of the audit, or through the public interest reporting hotline.

The province will provide rewards or bounties depending on the case for reports submitted through the public interest reporting hotline. Also, reporters will be handled with strict anonymity.

In particular, while guaranteeing the autonomy of local administrative affairs to the maximum extent, the audit will carefully examine acts that do not actively address residents' difficulties, infringe on their rights, cause financial losses, or cause inconvenience to residents’ lives through unfair or illegal acts.

Yoon Hyun-ok, the audit officer (audit team leader), said, "We will conduct the audit to help resolve issues causing inconvenience to residents and to aid in the recovery of the local economy and administrative development. While we will strictly hold accountable passive administration, illegal or improper acts, and budget waste due to reckless project promotion, we will operate a broad exemption system for proactive administration."

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