Accelerating Gwanak Grassroots Participatory Governance Strengthened by Public-Private Cooperation

2024 Gwanak-gu Cooperation & Resident Participation Budget Joint Performance Sharing Meeting
Touching Governance with Lee Cheong-deuk-sim, Wrapping Up Gwanak Cooperation 2024, and Looking Forward to an Even More Promising 2025

Lee Cheong-deuk-sim (以聽得心) Gwanak-gu (Mayor Park Jun-hee), which promotes administration that moves beyond resident satisfaction to inspire through communication and cooperation, shares the year's achievements with residents and will move forward more vigorously toward grassroots democracy in Gwanak in 2025.

The district held the '2024 Cooperation and Participatory Budgeting Performance Sharing Meeting' on the 17th at the district office auditorium.

About 100 residents, including Park Jun-hee, the co-chair of cooperation and district mayor, Park Seung-han, the civilian co-chair, cooperation committee members, Kang Jung-won, chair of the resident participatory budgeting committee, resident participatory budgeting committee members, and project proposers, participated together in this performance sharing meeting.

In particular, to celebrate Gwanak's pioneering grassroots democracy and cooperative administration, Choi Jung-ok, president of the 'Seoul Cooperation Council,' a council of current and former civilian cooperation chairs of Seoul's autonomous districts, and chairs from other autonomous districts attended, adding more prestige to the event.

The event began with a passionate congratulatory performance by violinist Jang Han-saem and shared videos of the process and achievements of about 1.3 billion KRW worth of projects, including three cooperation tasks and 25 resident participatory budgeting projects executed in 2024.

Additionally, four cooperation tasks (320 million KRW) and 35 resident participatory budgeting projects (1.37 billion KRW) identified and selected this year for execution in 2025 were exhibited.

Furthermore, the event included video ending credits featuring the reflections of residents who participated in various roles, from proposing ideas for Gwanak's cooperative administration to activities of the execution promotion team, along with a list of about 300 participants, reaffirming the 'value of participation, value of togetherness.'

The cooperation tasks selected for 2025 include ▲'Establishing a resident-centered public-private cooperation system for health promotion focusing on prevention rather than treatment,' ▲'Making neighborhoods more comfortable and safe' to foster a safety culture regarding personal mobility devices (PM) such as electric kickboards, and ▲'Hosting the Gwanak E-sports Tournament' for branding Gwanak as a youth capital, totaling about 320 million KRW, to be executed from January next year centered on the public-private execution promotion team.

The 2025 resident participatory budgeting projects include a total of 35 projects worth about 1.37 billion KRW, such as ▲'Clean care for air conditioners and heaters to support small business owners as a pillar of the local economy,' ▲'Dementia education and visiting health management for a healthy old age in a super-aged society,' and ▲'Learning cardiopulmonary resuscitation for Gwanak residents' safety.

Mayor Park Jun-hee said, “Participatory autonomy and cooperative administration, where residents directly propose and public and private sectors create together, are the core administrative values of our district,” adding, “Next year, we will do our best to discover and promote various projects with residents for inspiring administration.”