Yun Byeong-tae, Mayor of Naju, Holds Meeting with Gwangjeon Labor Union... Discusses Key Issues

Published 10 Feb.2023 11:15(KST)

[Naju=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yukbong] Naju City and the Gwangju-Jeonnam Joint Innovation City Relocated Institutions Labor Union Council (hereinafter Gwangjeonnohyeop) pledged mutual cooperation to improve residential conditions in the innovation city and resolve current issues.

According to the city on the 10th, Mayor Yoon Byung-tae held the first New Year's meeting of the Year of the Rabbit with Gwangjeonnohyeop the day before.

Yoon Byung-tae, Mayor of Naju, holds the first meeting of the Year of the Rabbit with the Gwangjeon Labor Union. <br>[Photo by Naju]

Yoon Byung-tae, Mayor of Naju, holds the first meeting of the Year of the Rabbit with the Gwangjeon Labor Union.
[Photo by Naju]

The meeting was held at a restaurant in Bitgaram-dong with the attendance of 11 labor union chairpersons from relocated public institutions, including Lee Eulchul, newly elected chairman of Gwangjeonnohyeop and head of the Korea Rural Community Corporation Labor Union Headquarters.

Gwangjeonnohyeop proposed solutions to residential condition issues in education, transportation, and environment sectors through dialogue with Mayor Yoon.

In particular, a wide range of opinions were exchanged regarding improving residential conditions, such as alleviating student overcrowding in the innovation city and enhancing educational capacity by establishing an elementary school and a private middle school, securing parking spaces due to the closure of the temporary parking lot on the complex cultural center site, reorganizing city bus routes passing through the innovation city, addressing urban odor problems, and conducting regular inspections on the suitability of SRF fuel.

Gwangjeonnohyeop also suggested to Mayor Yoon the placement of a youth cultural center within the complex cultural center and regularizing communication with relocated institutions.

Mayor Yoon said, “We will make Bitgaram Innovation City a premium self-sufficient city and a new innovation model for national balanced development, and will do our best to steadily resolve the proposed issues to establish the best residential conditions. We will regularize communication with Gwangjeonnohyeop and actively cooperate as partners in Naju’s development.”

Since the beginning of this year, the city has been accelerating efforts to strengthen partnerships for regional development with 33 national and provincial institutions in the area, including 16 relocated public institutions in the innovation city.

The city will operate a department responsibility system starting this month by matching 17 related departments closely linked to each institution’s work on a one-to-one basis and will build a win-win cooperation network.

In particular, regarding the regular communication suggested by Gwangjeonnohyeop, the city plans to operate periodic communication days quarterly or semi-annually and increase mutual understanding by sharing major tasks and projects between institutions.

Through this, the city aims to prevent overlapping investments in major projects, discover new cooperative projects that can create synergy for regional development, and achieve minimum cost with maximum effect.

Mayor Yoon Byung-tae stated, “Although we have promoted various projects with existing relocated public institutions, the practical synergy effect in terms of regional development was minimal, and communication and collaboration with national and provincial institutions were somewhat limited. Starting this year, we will actively develop cooperative projects and leading models that enable mutual win-win as partners for Naju’s development with these institutions.”

Naju=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yukbong baekok@asiae.co.kr