Hwaseong City Establishes "Basic Society Office" Dedicated to Basic Society Policy

Promotion to Basic Society Office, Comprised of Four Teams
Discovering and Implementing Hwaseong-style Basic Society Policies

Hwaseong City in Gyeonggi Province has launched a dedicated department to implement President Lee Jaemyung's "Basic Society" policy at the local government level.

On July 1, Hwaseong City announced the official launch of the "Basic Society Office," the nation’s first dedicated department for basic society initiatives. This move upgrades the "Basic Society Team," which was newly established in January, to a full office. The Basic Society Office consists of four teams: the Basic Society Policy Team, the Basic Society Support Team, the Social Economy Planning Team, and the Social Economy Support Team.

Each team will be responsible for one of the core pillars of the "Hwaseong-style Basic Society"?basic income, basic services, social economy, and sustainability?and will work to connect and promote practical basic society policies and projects in each area.

In particular, the Basic Society Office will identify and develop the "Ten Core Tasks of Hwaseong-style Basic Society" into concrete and feasible policies, building on the policy foundation laid by the previous Basic Society Team.

As an initial initiative, the city will establish the "Basic Society Promotion Group." This group will be composed mainly of experts and practitioners in each field. Through public idea contests and collaborative research with the Hwaseong City Research Institute, the city plans to create a citizen-participatory system for discovering and developing basic society policies.

Jung Myunggeun, Mayor of Hwaseong, stated, "The establishment of the Basic Society Office is both a policy commitment to realizing the Hwaseong-style Basic Society and a strong expression of our ambition to pursue the highest level of welfare policies befitting a special city of one million residents. Through citizen-centered policy implementation, Hwaseong will serve as a milestone for basic society policies in Korea and as a guiding light for local governments nationwide."

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