Gyeonggi Fire Department Receives High Praise for Organizational Restructuring... Wins Excellence Award at Korea Administrative Innovation Awards

Jo Seon-ho, Director of the Gyeonggi-do Fire and Disaster Headquarters (third from the left), is taking a commemorative photo with attendees after receiving the Excellence Award at the Korea Administrative Innovation Awards on the 1st.

The Gyeonggi-do Fire and Disaster Headquarters received the Excellence Award at the Korea Administrative Innovation Awards.

On the 3rd, the Fire and Disaster Headquarters announced that it had won the Excellence Award at the ‘Korea Administrative Innovation Awards,’ held for the first time this year by the Korean Society for Public Administration Reform, targeting central administrative agencies, local governments, and public institutions.

Previously, the Fire and Disaster Headquarters, which is the largest firefighting organization nationwide with 11,495 personnel, conducted a demand- and performance-centered organizational diagnosis and analysis over the past three months to transform into a flexible organization adapting to changes in the firefighting environment, in line with the government’s policy of ‘establishing a flexible and efficient government system.’

Through this, similar or overlapping work functions were integrated, and new demand areas were reinforced. The entire organization was diagnosed with a focus on strengthening field response by reallocating personnel to departments with high dispatch volumes and regions with significant risk factors.

In particular, 119 Safety Centers were newly established, additional personnel were assigned to areas with increasing emergency medical service demand, and 16 organizations were abolished or merged.

Joseonho, head of the Gyeonggi-do Fire and Disaster Headquarters, emphasized, "This year, Gyeonggi-do Fire reorganized its structure focusing on improving service quality to residents and strengthening actual firefighting capabilities without increasing personnel. We will do our best to protect residents’ safety by allocating personnel precisely where they are needed through more detailed organizational analysis."

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