Yangju City Selected as an Excellent Institution in Proposal Activation Evaluation, Awarded the 'Presidential Award'

A view of Yangju City Hall.

Gyeonggi Yangju City (Mayor Kang Su-hyun) announced on the 31st that it was honored to be selected as an excellent institution in the ‘2024 Proposal Activation Excellence Institution Evaluation’ hosted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and received the Presidential Citation.

The ‘Proposal Activation Excellence Institution Evaluation’ is promoted to reward institutions with outstanding performance in operating the public proposal and civil servant proposal systems among central administrative agencies, nationwide provinces, cities, counties, districts, and provincial offices of education, thereby encouraging the activation of the proposal system and the spread of proposal culture.

In this evaluation, the process was conducted through the first internal evaluation by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, followed by the second central excellent proposal review committee and the public voting procedure on the National Idea Box, focusing on ▲ improvement of proposal adoption and implementation rates ▲ number of matured adopted proposals ▲ number of recommended excellent proposals internally ▲ excellent cases of proposal activation.

According to the city, Yangju’s proposal implementation rate increased by more than 40% compared to 2023, and it was highly evaluated for efforts to ensure that adopted proposals are not neglected but lead to administrative service improvements. This includes promoting proposal-specialized contests such as living lab projects for citizens, innovation brand contests for civil servants, and policy idea contests, as well as creating creative proposals through various proposal channels and linking them to commercialization.

Yangju City has solidified its position as an excellent institution leading proposal activation by achieving three consecutive awards, including the Prime Minister’s Award in the 2022 Proposal Activation Evaluation and the Minister of the Interior and Safety Award in 2023.

Kang Su-hyun, Mayor of Yangju City, said, “Thanks to the interest and active participation of citizens and city officials in city administration, Yangju City has received great honor,” and added, “We will continue to encourage and develop creative ideas so that fresh ideas can lead to improvements in administrative services.”

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