Gyeongju City Expands Tourism, Welfare, and Safety Networks... Accelerating Efforts to Create a Better Place to Live

Focusing on Key Issues:
From Alleviating Parking Shortages on Hwangridan-gil
to Preventing Solitary Deaths and Conducting Industrial Complex Safety Inspections

Gyeongju City is working to boost local vitality through a multifaceted approach to municipal administration, including expanding infrastructure for tourists' convenience, strengthening the welfare safety net to protect vulnerable groups, and conducting safety inspections at industrial sites.

The large-scale public parking lot established on Hwangridan-gil in Gyeongju has played a pivotal role in alleviating parking shortages in the area, recording high usage rates from the early days of its operation.

Last weekend, the Hwangridan-gil public parking lot, with a total of 894 spaces, was filled with visitor vehicles and recorded full occupancy for the most part.
[Photo by Gyeongju City]

According to the city on April 14, the public parking lot on Hwangridan-gil, with a total of 894 spaces, was filled with visitors' vehicles last weekend, recording near full capacity for most of the time.

This parking lot, constructed with a project cost of KRW 24.5 billion since 2019, began full-scale operation in January this year. It has been credited with greatly improving transportation convenience for tourists by connecting with city bus circulation routes.

The parking lot, which is currently being operated free of charge, is scheduled to become a paid facility starting in the second half of this year.

In the area of welfare, the city is strengthening an on-site, proactive response system to prevent solitary deaths.

On April 13, the city signed a Financial business agreement with Gyeongju Post Office for the "Well-Being Postal Service," and starting in May, will conduct regular well-being checks for single-person middle-aged and senior households.

Under this service, postal delivery workers will visit the target households twice a month, delivering daily necessities and checking on the residents in person.

The purpose is to address the limitations of the existing non-face-to-face management system and to identify households in crisis early by utilizing the local knowledge and human network of postal workers.

Efforts to ensure safety and communicate with citizens are also ongoing.

The city will conduct safety inspections of 35 industrial complexes and agricultural and industrial parks that are either completed or under construction by April 20, focusing on facilities vulnerable in the spring season.

The plan is to preemptively block risk factors such as retaining walls and cut slopes, and to check emergency recovery systems to create a safe industrial environment.

Previously, on April 11, the city hosted the "3rd Queen Seondeok Cherry Blossom Barefoot Walk" in the area of King Jinpyeong's Tomb, promoting a walking culture with about 800 citizens. On April 13, the Gyeongbuk Eastern Senior Protection Agency and the Senior Welfare Center signed an agreement to prevent elder abuse, further strengthening collaborative systems to protect socially vulnerable groups.

Choi Hyukjun, Acting Mayor of Gyeongju, stated, "In addition to expanding the infrastructure for revitalizing tourism, we will focus all our capabilities on building a thorough welfare and safety net so that citizens can live with peace of mind."

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