Pohang Mayor Lee Gang-deok Emphasizes "Implementing Detailed Administrative Measures That Citizens Can Truly Feel"

Ensuring Thorough Implementation of Welfare, Health, and Cultural Services and Current Projects

Mayor Lee Kang-deok of Pohang emphasized the importance of doing his best to improve the satisfaction of citizens, the customers of administration, through administration that citizens can tangibly feel.

On the 13th, Pohang City held the '2024 Major Business Plan Report Meeting' by department of the Welfare Bureau, Health Center, and Lifelong Learning Center, chaired by Mayor Lee Kang-deok, at the City Hall main conference room.

On the 13th, Pohang City held a report meeting on next year’s major work plans for the Welfare Bureau, Nam-gu and Buk-gu Public Health Centers, and the Lifelong Learning Center at the city hall’s main conference room, presided over by Mayor Lee Kang-deok. The meeting discussed current projects aimed at enhancing the completeness of the 8th elected administration’s governance and providing dense and comprehensive welfare, health, and cultural arts administrative services closely connected to citizens’ lives and daily living.

The report meeting featured presentations by each bureau on this year’s major achievements and next year’s core strategic projects, followed by an in-depth discussion on next year’s policy and detailed project implementation directions, chaired by Mayor Lee Kang-deok.

Mayor Lee Kang-deok stated, “The fields of welfare, health, and culture and arts are very important frontline administrations that citizens can directly feel and that are closely linked to improving quality of life. I ask that you thoroughly implement policies with meticulous and detailed administration tailored to citizens’ perspectives so that they can take pride in living in Pohang.”

The Welfare Bureau set three core strategies: ▲establishing a Pohang-type integrated care system in response to entering a low birthrate and aging society ▲Goodbye welfare blind spots, innovating the public welfare delivery system ▲a future-oriented educational innovation city leading the local era.

Key detailed projects to achieve these include realizing Pohang as a new homeland city in daily life, actively promoting a high-quality premium funeral culture park, designating an education free zone, and focusing on specialized projects linking community-based welfare centers and village halls.

The Nam-gu and Buk-gu Public Health Centers, with the vision of a healthy city for citizens, plan to thoroughly promote various core strategic projects to eliminate health disparities and provide public health services enjoyed by all citizens. These include building a smart healthcare system, operating a 24-hour pediatric emergency medical center, relocating and rebuilding the Buk-gu Public Health Center, and constructing the Pohang City Healthy Living Support Center.

The Lifelong Learning Center set core strategies of ▲realizing lifelong learning in daily life that all citizens can enjoy ▲becoming a leading city in reading promotion in Korea ▲implementing a community art museum open to all. To this end, plans include hosting the 2024 Korea Reading Festival to contribute to cultural prosperity as the “City of Books,” opening the Heunghae Public Library as a northern district hub library, and promoting the construction of the second building of the Municipal Art Museum to expand opportunities for citizens to enjoy culture and arts.

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