Goyang Special City Mayor Lee Dong-hwan chaired an executive meeting on the 15th and reviewed key issues for citizen safety and local autonomy innovation. He urged strengthening the disaster response system to prevent major accidents, and ordered all efforts to find public offering projects to secure the 2025 government budget, pass the Special Act on Support for Special Cities, and establish a sustainable administrative system.
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[Korean Today] Goyang Mayor Lee Dong-hwan, “Thoroughly inspect disaster response system… Urge citizens to prioritize safety” © Reporter Ji Seung-ju |
Goyang Special City Mayor Lee Dong-hwan discussed major tasks for disaster response system and administrative innovation at the executive meeting held on the 15th. The mayor emphasized, “We must thoroughly inspect the disaster response system, taking the recent black ice accidents on Jayuro and Seoul-Munsan Expressway as a lesson,” and “In particular, all departments must make the safety of citizens the top priority and do their best.”
This accident was a major accident involving a chain of events involving 105 vehicles, and it raised the need for a quick response manual review and system improvement in the event of a disaster. The mayor instructed, “Refer to the case of Seongnam City’s fire accident response and devise a plan to minimize damage to citizens.”
In addition, the market emphasized the importance of finding public offering projects to secure the government budget for 2025, saying, “Securing a budget is a key driving force for regional development, so prepare for public offering projects by utilizing all resources.” In particular, he urged thorough advance preparations to not miss the opportunity to secure a budget by mobilizing all available resources such as manpower, technology, and cooperation networks.
He then stated that the market needs to make active efforts to pass the Special Act on Support for Special Cities. He emphasized, “It has been three years since Goyang Special City was promoted to a special city, but it is still a legal name,” and “All departments must cooperate to strengthen the special city’s actual authority and local autonomy.”
Along with this, the mayor said, “It is thanks to the efforts of citizens and public officials that Goyang Special City received 77 institutional awards in 2024,” and encouraged them, “We must achieve sustainable development through citizen-centered administration next year as well.”
The executive meeting on this day also included a time to review the status of the major priority projects of the 8th local government. In the report in which a total of 6 departments participated, major pending issues such as △Goyang City’s carbon neutral policy △Promotion of the educational development special zone pilot area △Improvement of public transportation routes in all directions △Changneung New Town development were discussed. The participants reviewed the policy promotion direction and implementation plan in various fields such as climate response, education, transportation, and urban development and discussed development plans.
In particular, Goyang City announced plans to strengthen policy efforts for carbon neutrality, expand the educational foundation for future generations through a pilot project for an education development special zone, and increase convenience for residents by expanding public transportation infrastructure and developing new cities.
Mayor Lee Dong-hwan concluded the meeting by urging all departments to “do their best with a sense of mission so that the key projects of the 8th local government can bring about real changes to the local community and the lives of citizens.”
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