Ministry of the Interior and Safety Hosts 'National Happiness Civil Service Office'... Busan City Selected for 3 Consecutive Times!

Selected as Re-certified Institution for 'This Year's National Happiness Civil Service Contest', Third Time Following 2016 and 2020

Busan City has been selected as a re-certified institution for the third consecutive time in the ‘2023 National Happiness Civil Service Office Evaluation’ conducted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety.

A spacious and comfortable National Happiness Civil Service Center.

The National Happiness Civil Service Office is a system that comprehensively evaluates and selects the internal and external environments and services of civil service offices across local governments, metropolitan and provincial offices of education, and special administrative agencies nationwide to improve the level of civil service, granting the status of an excellent institution for three years.

This year, after document screening, on-site evaluation by panel members, and satisfaction surveys, 39 institutions including Busan City were selected as National Happiness Civil Service Offices.

With this re-certification, the city has achieved the distinction of being selected as an excellent institution for civil service three times consecutively since its first certification as an excellent civil service institution in 2016, followed by 2020, and this year. This is a significant testament to the excellence of Busan City’s civil service.

In particular, Busan City’s efforts to provide differentiated civil services, such as operating civil service offices arranged by zones considering the flow of civil petitioners to meet citizens’ perspectives, running counters for socially vulnerable groups, installing safety help bells, and placing civil service office guides to prioritize citizens, have been recognized externally.

Among the city’s autonomous districts and counties, Yeonje-gu (new certification), Nam-gu, and Dong-gu (re-certifications) were also selected as National Happiness Civil Service Offices along with the city.

Mayor Park Hyung-jun said, “Being selected as a National Happiness Civil Service Office for the third consecutive time is the result of prioritizing citizens’ happiness and creating a comfortable and friendly civil service office environment that people want to revisit,” adding, “We will continue to strive to create a civil service office that is approachable and comfortable for citizens and do our best to ensure that civil service administration that satisfies everyone can be sustained.”

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