Pyeongtaek City "Crematorium Contest to be Held in September"

Public Contest Following Regional Resident Briefings... Targeting Opening in 2030
Construction of Comprehensive Funeral Facility with Columbarium, Natural Burial Site, and Funeral Hall

Pyeongtaek City in Gyeonggi Province will hold a public contest for comprehensive funeral facilities, including crematoriums, in September after conducting resident briefing sessions.

On the 29th, Pyeongtaek City announced that it recently held resident briefing sessions in Oseong-myeon and Seotan-myeon to promote the construction project of comprehensive funeral facilities within the city. The city explained that these sessions were organized to provide residents with accurate information about the project and to improve negative perceptions of funeral facilities.

Residents are listening to the city officials' explanation at the residents' briefing session held by Pyeongtaek City for the construction of a comprehensive funeral facility.
[Photo by Pyeongtaek City]

The city plans to hold additional briefing sessions by the end of August targeting residents of Jinwi-myeon and Paengseong-eup, as well as other interested areas. After the resident briefing sessions, the city will conduct benchmarking of advanced funeral facilities jointly with residents, followed by a public contest for candidate sites for the comprehensive funeral facility construction around September.

Mayor Jeong Jang-seon stated, "We will actively reflect the opinions raised by residents during the briefing sessions in the project," and added, "We will continue communication with residents throughout the process of actively promoting the project."

Earlier, at the end of February, the city announced plans to promote the construction of comprehensive funeral facilities equipped with crematoriums, columbariums, natural burial grounds, and funeral halls through a local public contest. The city aims to complete the funeral facilities by 2030 and is also considering installing a metropolitan-wide comprehensive funeral facility in cooperation with neighboring local governments. To this end, the city prepared the legally mandated "Pyeongtaek City Funeral Facility Supply and Demand Plan (2023?2027)" last year, which is formulated every five years.

Currently, Pyeongtaek City does not have its own crematorium, so nearly 3,000 cremations annually (based on 2022) are conducted at crematoriums in other areas such as Suwon.

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