Goyang City Achieves Minister of Gender Equality and Family Award for Excellence in Family-Friendly Institutions

Expanding Welfare for Employees During Childbirth and Childcare
Fostering a Family-Friendly Workplace Culture
Leading the Way in Achieving Work-Life Balance

Goyang Special City in Gyeonggi Province (Mayor Lee Donghwan) announced on the 21st that it received the Minister of Gender Equality and Family Award at the "2025 Family-Friendly Excellent Institutions and Companies Government Awards Ceremony" hosted by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family on the 20th, in recognition of its active support for employees' work-life balance.

Lee Donghwan, Mayor of Goyang Special City, is receiving the Minister of Gender Equality and Family Award at the "2025 Family-Friendly Excellent Institutions and Companies Government Awards Ceremony" hosted by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family on the 20th. Provided by Goyang Special City

The city received high marks for its ▲childbirth, childcare, and educational support systems, ▲support systems for workers and their dependents, and ▲performance in fostering a family-friendly workplace culture.

Over the years, the city has actively implemented a variety of family-friendly policies, including operating an on-site daycare center, introducing a compensation system for work substitutes, hiring temporary staff, running a psychological counseling center for employees called "Mind Rest Area," supporting workplace clubs and sports facilities, and providing opportunities for employees' families to experience rural and local culture.

Additionally, to create a family-friendly community environment, the city has continuously promoted the family-friendly certification system in cooperation with organizations such as the Goyang Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Goyang City Federation of Economic Organizations. It has also encouraged companies whose certification is about to expire to extend or renew their certification, thereby working to increase the number of certified companies.

As a result, the number of family-friendly certified companies in the city, which stood at only seven in 2014, has increased every year, reaching 61 in 2024.

Alongside these efforts, the city has continuously worked to establish an organizational culture in which all employees can enjoy a work-life balance without discrimination, by encouraging the active use of annual leave, expanding welfare for employees during childbirth, childcare, and for those with multiple children, and promoting paternity leave for male employees.

Mayor Lee Donghwan stated, "Employees can fully demonstrate their capabilities only when they are able to balance work and family, which in turn leads to improved quality of administrative services. We will continue to expand our family-friendly working environment and flexible organizational culture so that employees can work even more comfortably in the future."

Meanwhile, the "Family-Friendly Certification System" is overseen by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family. It certifies companies and public institutions that create a family-friendly workplace culture and operate related systems in an exemplary manner, enabling employees to harmoniously balance work and family life. Since its introduction in 2008, the system has continued to spread, and as of 2024, a total of 6,502 companies and institutions nationwide have been certified.

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