"Meeting 28 Times to Persuade Instead of Forced Execution"…A Look at Yongin City's Proactive Administrative Case

Yongin City Selects 7 Best Practices for the First Half of the Year

During a road construction project in Gorim-dong, Cheoin-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Mr. A refused to vacate despite receiving compensation for losses due to the inclusion of his land in the project site. Although the city filed an eviction lawsuit, he threatened suicide attempts and even registered his elderly mother, who has mobility difficulties, as a resident to resist the eviction order.

Forced eviction using physical force became inevitable. However, the city officials chose dialogue. After meeting with Mr. A twice a week for 28 times, persuading him, and purchasing moving supplies at their own expense, they ultimately succeeded in securing his voluntary departure.

This case was selected as an excellent example of proactive administration by Yongin City in the first half of the year. On the 27th, Yongin City held the 'Proactive Administration Committee' and announced on the 28th that seven outstanding cases of proactive administration in the first half of the year had been selected. The city explained that the selected cases were among 10 that passed the first round of screening from 39 excellent cases submitted this year and received the highest scores in the public vote.

The committee highly evaluated the Gorim-dong case for preventing construction delays and additional construction costs by achieving a smooth eviction without forcibly mobilizing public authority or causing safety accidents, and for efforts to resolve issues from the citizens' perspective.

The second place was awarded to the 'Selection of the Semiconductor National Advanced Strategic Industry Specialized Complex' in collaboration with the Semiconductor Industrial Complex. To create a semiconductor ecosystem centered on the 'L-shaped Semiconductor Belt,' a key policy of the 8th municipal administration, the city participated in the government's contest for the 'National Advanced Strategic Industry Specialized Complex' by linking the Advanced System Semiconductor Clusters (Idong and Namsa), Samsung Electronics Future Research Complex, and Yongin Semiconductor Cluster. As a result, all three sites were designated as specialized complexes in July last year.

The Transportation Policy Division, which created 72 free public parking spaces in Singal-dong by utilizing state-owned land that had been neglected due to illegal parking and unauthorized garbage dumping, was selected third. This effort was praised for solving the chronic problem of unauthorized use of state-owned land while improving the poor parking environment. In particular, the division received high marks for reducing annual land usage fees by approximately 24 million KRW through a business agreement with the Korea Water Resources Corporation, which provided the land free of charge.

Other proactive administration exemplary cases include ▲ resolving unreasonable sewage treatment issues in the Dongnim sewage treatment area (covering Dongnim, Osan, and Neungwon-ri) ▲ opening of the 'Starlight Yard Night Market' at Yongin Central Market ▲ small-scale housing structural safety inspections to eliminate safety blind spots ▲ and enhancing the brand value of 'Joayang' through character collaboration with Everland.

The city will provide incentives such as the highest grade of performance pay and reward leave to the officials who promoted the seven finally selected outstanding cases according to their ranking.

A city official stated, "We will continue to foster an atmosphere where public officials engage in proactive administration to make Yongin City a happy place for its citizens."

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