Mokpo City Announces Regular Personnel Changes and Organizational Restructuring for the Second Half of 2024

Establishment of One Department and One Division to Accelerate Key Projects in the Second Half of the 8th Elected Term

Focus on Strengthening Economic Sector Organizations such as the Future Strategy Industry Bureau and Strategic Industry Division

Mokpo City carried out an organizational restructuring and regular personnel appointments effective July 15, 2024.

According to the city on the 11th, this organizational restructuring, aimed at securing sustainable future growth engines, focused on fostering the offshore wind power industry by establishing one new bureau and one new division, including the Future Strategy Industry Bureau and the Strategic Industry Division.

Following the confirmation of a 300 billion KRW investment attraction from Vestas, a Danish company ranked number one globally in the offshore wind turbine sector, in April, last month Mokpo New Port was designated as a "Opportunity Development Special Zone," a key government policy for regional balanced development, laying the foundation for fostering the offshore wind power industry.

As large-scale investments in offshore wind-related sectors become visible, marking an important period that will determine Mokpo's future through improving the local industrial structure and creating quality jobs, the city has significantly reorganized its administration to focus more on realizing a young economic city where youth return, a core goal of the 8th term of the elected government.

Exterior view of Mokpo City Hall

Additionally, considering the functions and characteristics of tasks to establish a more efficient command scope, the existing Planning and Youth Bureau was reorganized into the Planning and Management Bureau; the Economic, Fisheries, and Environment Bureau was divided into the Future Strategy Industry Bureau and the Marine Fisheries and Environment Bureau; and the Safety City Construction Bureau and Urban Development Project Group were reorganized into the Urban Park Bureau and the Safety Construction and Transportation Bureau, respectively.

Along with the organizational restructuring, a total of 422 personnel changes were made, including 85 promotions, 8 promotion approvals, 306 transfers, and 23 new appointments.

The number of promotions and promotion approvals by rank are as follows: 2 at grade 4, 9 at grade 5, 8 promotion approvals at grade 5 and research curator level, 16 at grade 6, 25 at grade 7, and 33 at grade 8, totaling 93 people.

Transfer appointments strengthened personnel in key areas such as the newly established Strategic Industry Division, economy, population, and disaster management, while placing employees appropriately to ensure smooth progress of tasks such as establishing the Mokpo-type public transportation system and attracting a medical school to Mokpo National University.

A city official stated, "This personnel appointment focused on accelerating the core projects of the second half of the 8th term of the elected government," adding, "Through the reorganized organization, we will concentrate administrative efforts to develop Mokpo into a city where businesses, youth, and future generations can live well."

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