Yangju City Achieves Re-Certification in the '2024 National Happiness Civil Service Office' Contest

A view of Yangju City Hall.

Gyeonggi Yangju City (Mayor Kang Su-hyun) has succeeded in re-certification in the ‘2024 National Happiness Civil Service Office’ contest hosted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, demonstrating its status as an excellent administrative institution at the center of northern Gyeonggi.

According to Yangju City on the 8th, the ‘National Happiness Civil Service Office’ is a system in which the Ministry of the Interior and Safety annually selects and certifies outstanding institutions by comprehensively evaluating a total of 24 evaluation items across 7 indicators in 4 areas: ▲internal and external environment of civil service offices ▲safety environment ▲civil service.

Yangju City, which received its first new certification in 2021, received high evaluations in on-site inspections, experience evaluations, and customer satisfaction surveys in this contest, and the certification is expected to be maintained for three years from next year until 2027.

Mayor Kang Su-hyun explained, “This result is the outcome of our continuous efforts to provide ‘citizen-centered customized civil service’ by creating a convenient, safe, and effective civil service environment for our 290,000 Yangju citizens.”

To create a citizen-centered customized happiness civil service office, the city has promoted various civil service initiatives such as ▲pilot introduction of unmanned civil service issuance machines supporting foreign languages ▲establishment of civil service consultation rooms ▲operation of night civil service offices every Thursday.

It is also known that the city has made efforts to boost the morale of civil service officials by preparing various support measures such as civil service response training, operation of healing programs, and providing exceptional incentives.

Mayor Kang Su-hyun stated, “We will continue to do our best to create a civil service environment where all citizens can be convenient and satisfied and to provide better civil services.”

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