Gangwon-Junggi Ombudsman, Full-Scale Collaboration Including Regulatory Innovation Business Agreement

Request for Improvement Including Rationalization of Quality Certification Standards for Agricultural and Fishery Specialties in Gangwon Autonomous Province

Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province and the Small and Medium Business Ombudsman signed a mutual business agreement on the morning of the 30th at the small conference room of the new building of the Gangwon Provincial Government Office to promote sustainable regulatory innovation for small and medium enterprises.

This agreement is the first local-central regulatory innovation business agreement between the Small and Medium Business Ombudsman and local governments. Through this agreement, the two organizations plan to establish a cooperative system for regulatory innovation with the joint goal of creating a global city for future industries in Gangwon Province and revitalizing the regional economy, and to mutually cooperate in sharing regulatory information and cases, joint regulatory investigations and discoveries, and promotional activities.

At the business agreement ceremony held at Gangwon Provincial Government Office on the 30th, Choi Seung-jae, Small and Medium Business Ombudsman (fourth from the left), Kim Jin-tae, Governor of Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province (fifth from the left), and officials from both organizations are posing for a commemorative photo.
[Photo by Small and Medium Business Ombudsman]

Governor Kim Jin-tae said, "There are about 240,000 small and medium enterprises in the province, of which about 230,000 are small business owners with fewer than 10 regular employees. With this regulatory innovation momentum, we expect the rapid resolution of regulations and difficulties faced by small and medium enterprises in the province and visible results."

Ombudsman Choi Seung-jae stated, "We will comprehensively support the success of Gangwon Province as a global city for future industries through region-customized regulatory innovation."

In the afternoon of the same day, the Small and Medium Business Ombudsman and Gangwon Province also held the 1st Local-Central Regulatory Innovation Joint Meeting with small and medium enterprises, Gangwon Province, and the Small and Medium Business Ombudsman at Chuncheon KT&G Sangsangmadang.

At the meeting, discussions were held on 10 major tasks proposed by the region as requiring improvement on-site, such as easing admission requirements for the doctoral program in the Small and Medium Business Contract Department, rationalizing quality certification standards for agricultural and marine specialty products in Gangwon Province, and relaxing designation requirements for alley-type shopping districts in basic local governments within Gangwon Province, which the province judged to be urgently necessary to resolve.

In addition, other key issues for revitalizing the Gangwon regional economy were also discussed, including allowing the installation of solar energy facilities in national forests preserved in mining areas, expanding the recognition scope of cold water heat renewable energy at Soyanggang Dam, and excluding the application of the Waste Management Act when captured carbon dioxide is mixed with 광미 resources.

Deputy Governor Kim Myung-seon said, "We will continue to improve regulations and difficulties that hinder the growth and innovation of local companies and small business owners through a cooperative system with the Ombudsman to revitalize the regional economy." Ombudsman Choi Seung-jae responded, "We will do our best to resolve the regulatory difficulties discussed here."

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