The Seoul Metropolitan Government has stepped forward to identify regulations that restrict economic activities of Seoul citizens and cause inconvenience to them.
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The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that it will operate a concentrated reporting system for 100 days from January 3 to April 12, 2025, in which any Seoul citizen can report unreasonable and unnecessary regulations in all areas of Seoul city administration. This is the intention to actively uncover unnecessary regulations in the economic and livelihood sectors that are directly related to the lives of Seoul citizens and to carry out ‘regulatory abolition’ beyond ‘regulatory reform’.
The reporting targets are broadly set to include management difficulties of the self-employed, small business owners, and small and medium-sized enterprises, employment issues for young people and those on career breaks, factors hindering the activation of new technologies and new industries, issues related to childbirth, childcare, and welfare for the elderly, and inconveniences in daily life such as transportation and housing. In particular, the plan is to identify excessive regulations in major industries such as wholesale and retail, finance, and information and communications to support citizens’ economic activities.
The city emphasized that the first step to deregulation is to discover and manage regulations through voices from the field, as citizens working in related industries are the first to experience and feel the barriers to various regulations.
In particular, the plan is to find excessive regulations from the perspective of citizens regarding major industries that may hinder business activities due to various regulations, such as wholesale and retail and professional services, which account for a large portion of economic activities of Seoul citizens.
This 100-day regulatory reporting system is part of the “regulatory abolition to give citizens a breather” that Mayor Oh Se-hoon mentioned in his New Year’s address for 2025. The regulations reported by Seoul citizens will be reviewed from the beginning by the Seoul city regulatory department with the goal of reducing half of Seoul city regulations.
In particular, among the reports received during the intensive reporting period, regulations deemed to be in high need of improvement will be immediately brought to the ‘Regulatory Abolition Meeting’ chaired by the Mayor of Seoul for in-depth discussion, and unnecessary regulations will be boldly abolished.
If you report unreasonable regulations that restrict business and small business management activities or cause inconvenience to citizens through the Regulatory Reform Report Center (www.sinmungo.go.kr), the Office for Government Policy Coordination will check the report, and Seoul Metropolitan City will then receive the regulatory task, review it, and respond. The Office for Government Policy Coordination will then check the response submitted by Seoul Metropolitan City and notify you of the final result.
Song Gwang-nam, the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s policy planning officer, said, “In the midst of the economic crisis, we will first look for things that the Seoul Metropolitan Government can do to eliminate economic and livelihood regulations that hinder corporate and small business activities,” adding, “I hope that citizens will actively discover and report unreasonable economic and livelihood regulations that have a close impact on their lives.”
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