Yangju City Awards Excellent Kindness Departments and Public Officials for the Second Half of 2025

Yangju City in Gyeonggi Province selected the '2025 Second Half Excellent Kindness Departments and Kindness Public Officials' and held an award ceremony during the December monthly meeting, aiming to realize a citizen-centered culture of kindness in public administration.

Yang Soo-hyun, mayor of Yangju City, is taking a commemorative photo with the awardees after selecting and awarding the '2025 Second Half Excellent Department for Kindness and Kind Public Officials'. Provided by Yangju City

The five departments recognized for excellence in kindness were the Health Promotion Division, Public Relations Officer, Sanitation Administration Division, Smart Information Officer, and Waterworks Division. The five outstanding kindness public officials selected were Jeong Yeji (Baekseok-eup), Cho Seongbin (Sanitation Administration Division), Kim Haun (Smart Information Officer), Kim Jihye (Agricultural Policy Division), and Jeong Chanmi (Okjeong 2-dong).

The awarded departments received a certificate and a prize of 150,000 won, while the outstanding kindness public officials were given various incentives such as a 0.3-point bonus in their performance evaluation, preferential consideration for overseas training, or a prize of 100,000 won.

Yangju City continues to conduct telephone response monitoring through an external professional research agency and systematically implements strategies to improve the level of kindness based on these results.

According to the results of the second half-year survey, the overall score reached 90.2 points, an increase of 0.2 points compared to the first half. This demonstrates that civil complaint response services are steadily improving. The latest awards also reflect these survey outcomes.

In particular, the city is striving to foster an organizational culture that enhances the quality of civil complaint services by sharing outstanding response cases among departments and disseminating know-how to all employees through executive meetings and kindness training sessions.

An official from Yangju City stated, "Kindness is the foundation of administrative services and the starting point for earning citizens' trust," adding, "We will continue to strengthen a public service culture that communicates with citizens and create a city of Yangju where everyone is satisfied with our kindness."

Yangju City expanded the selection of excellent kindness departments this year and plans to further enhance citizen-perceived service quality in 2026 by strengthening civil complaint satisfaction surveys and telephone kindness evaluations.

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