Songpa-gu Core Projects, 9 Out of 10 Residents Satisfied

2023 Resident Opinion Survey Shows Overwhelming Positive Ratings... Highest Satisfaction in Culture & Arts, Followed by Lifestyle & Sports

Songpa-gu (Mayor Seo Gang-seok) reported that in the 2023 resident opinion survey conducted in the second year of the 8th term of the elected administration, 90.5% of residents expressed satisfaction with the core projects of Songpa-gu.

This survey was commissioned to the professional research firm The Research Group Co., Ltd. and conducted through one-on-one face-to-face interviews with 1,000 residents from November 17 to 27 of last year. The sampling error margin is ±3.4 percentage points at a 95% confidence level.

First, in response to the question about living conditions in Songpa-gu, 92.3% of all respondents answered that it is "a good place to live." The factors contributing to satisfaction included a safe environment (41.4%) and leisure activities supported by abundant cultural and artistic infrastructure (38.1%).

In particular, the overall satisfaction rate for the eight core projects being promoted under the vision of the 8th term, "Songpa, a premium city serving residents as owners," was 90.5%, indicating that the majority of residents actively support the district administration.

By sector, the highest resident satisfaction was found in the ‘Culture, Arts, and Tourism Projects (97.5%)’ and ‘Expansion of Living Sports Infrastructure (94.9%)’. This is interpreted as a result of actively reflecting and implementing residents’ opinions who selected the ‘Culture and Sports’ sector as a priority project in the 2022 opinion survey.

Following these were ‘Operation of Native English Classes in Daycare Centers and Kindergartens (94.2%)’, ‘One-stop Permit Civil Service and Separate Operation of Passport Office (92.2%)’, ‘Opening and Route Extension of Songpa-gu’s First Village Bus (91%)’, ‘Guarantee of Property Rights and Improvement of Residential Environment in Pungnap-dong (87.4%)’, ‘Expansion of Support for Socially Vulnerable Groups (86.3%)’, and ‘Prompt Promotion of Redevelopment and Reconstruction (80.2%)’ in that order.

Additionally, regarding Songpa-gu’s representative pledge project, ‘Creation of a Premium Street on Songpa-daero’, over 70% of respondents identified ‘Creation of Media Forest on the Seokchon Lake Shore (72.5%)’ and ‘Creation of a Walkable Street through Sidewalk Expansion (72.2%)’ as the most anticipated projects, expressing residents’ hopes for Songpa-daero to develop into a representative street of Seoul.

Furthermore, the policies such as ‘Ordinance Enactment and Resident Evaluation Group Activities to Eradicate Hate and Defamatory Political Party Banners (92.3%)’ and ‘Improvement of Resident Convenience through Village Bus Route Extension (90.3%)’, which were first established and implemented by Songpa-gu as a basic local government, were evaluated positively, showing high empathy for proactive administrative efforts.

Seo Gang-seok, Mayor of Songpa-gu, stated, “It is a great encouragement that 9 out of 10 residents highly evaluate the 8th term district administration as doing well,” and added, “We will actively reflect the valuable opinions of residents revealed in this opinion survey in district administration to create ‘Songpa, a premium city where residents are the owners.’”

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