Paju City Selected as Excellent Public Service Design Project for Three Consecutive Years... Wins Minister of the Interior and Safety Award

Creating Multi-Value for Industrial Complex Workers
Transforming Production Spaces into Worker-Centered Living Environments
Focusing on Safety, Genuine Rest, and Emotional Well-being

Paju City in Gyeonggi Province announced on September 3 that it has been selected for three consecutive years as an excellent project at the '2025 Public Service Design Performance Sharing Conference,' hosted by the Korea Institute of Design Promotion and supervised by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, and has received the Minister of the Interior and Safety Award.

Paju City has been selected for three consecutive years as an excellent project at the '2025 Public Service Design Performance Sharing Conference' and is receiving the Minister of the Interior and Safety Award. Provided by Paju City

Paju City was recognized for the following projects: the 2023 Welfare Policy Division's 'Youth Confession (GoBack) "Finding Flower Grandpas and Flower Grandmas" Project Supporting Socially Isolated Households to Prevent Solitary Deaths'; the 2024 Urban Planning Division's 'Patrol for All for the Safety of Single-Person Households'; and the 2025 Urban Planning Division's 'Creating Multi-Value for Industrial Complex Workers,' which was selected as an excellent project this year.

This year's award-winning project, 'Creating Multi-Value,' is the result of efforts to transform industrial complexes from mere production spaces into worker-centered living environments. Paju City is home to 23 industrial complexes, 1,673 tenant companies, and approximately 48,000 workers. The city has focused on the increasing importance of workers' safety, rest, emotional satisfaction, and consideration.

In particular, this project was driven by the 'Citizen Policy Design Group,' which consists of young people preparing for employment, tenant companies in the industrial complexes, and students from the Munsan Suok High School club. From May to July, they conducted site visits, worker interviews, surveys, and joint policy workshops to derive practical improvement measures.

They concluded that creating a safe working environment and ensuring workers' rest are directly linked, and that genuine rest leads to improvements in the work environment. Based on this, the design group identified key policies such as establishing safe workspaces, providing emotional consideration, and strengthening cultural foundations, all centered on 'real rest' and 'real safety.'

Building on these achievements, Paju City plans to designate the Seonyu Industrial Complex as a pilot site, develop industrial complex safety design guidelines through the 'Gyeonggi Province Universal Design Project,' and expand these policies throughout the entire city to ensure sustainability and scalability.

Park Jiyeong, head of the Urban Planning Division, stated, "This project is especially meaningful because young people preparing for employment and tenant companies in the industrial complexes participated directly. We will continue to actively identify innovative public service projects that citizens can truly feel and review various ways to practically implement them."

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