2024-07-03 17:04:47
Yangpyeong-gun is realizing the charm of Yangpyeong that fills happiness and expectations. Yangpyeong-gun Mayor Jeon Jin-seon, who raised the anchor of the 8th elected government with the county government vision of ‘People, Nature, and Happy Yangpyeong’, is now in his second year of office, and a wind of innovation is blowing through Yangpyeong-gun.
Yangpyeong-gun has shown remarkable population growth since the 8th local government election, ranking first in the number of counties nationwide and second in the number of population increases, entering the era of 128,000 people. While most local governments are facing a population crisis and their populations are decreasing, Yangpyeong-gun is showing steady population growth and is spurring the realization of the charm of Yangpyeong that fills happiness and expectations.
Since the launch of the 8th local government, Yangpyeong County Governor Jeon Jin-seon has been smoothly fulfilling his promises to the people, recording a 77.8% implementation rate and a 52.9% completion rate for 29 pledges and 117 detailed pledge projects in the 5 major county administration directions of Yangpyeong County. He has also achieved excellent results in various external and public contests, securing 51.4 billion won in national and provincial funds for a total of 158 projects, including rural agreement projects.
As the 8th local government was launched in 2022, Yangpyeong County Governor Jeon Jin-seon presented five major directions for local government with the slogan of “People, Nature, and Happy Yangpyeong” to implement change and innovation through a new paradigm shift. Now that two years have passed since the launch of the 8th local government, we look back at the major achievements so far.
Administrative life that satisfies the citizens
Yangpyeong County Governor Jeon Jin-seon made the practice of daily life administration his top priority, based on the belief that the happiness of the people begins with resolving small inconveniences in daily life.
Immediately after taking office, he established the Road Department and the Cleaning Department to solve the recurring traffic congestion and chronic waste problems, and implemented an organizational restructuring aimed at integrating functions tailored to the needs of the residents, such as integrating the existing construction and permit work into the Permit 1 and 2 Departments for rapid civil affairs administration.
Since the establishment of the Cleaning Department, we have operated a city cleaning team to create a clean road environment, and we have also carried out the Clean Yangpyeong campaign with 142 social groups and 2,000 residents to create a cleaning culture voluntarily participated by residents, winning the grand prize in the 2023 Clean Gyeonggi Evaluation.
In addition, to solve the vulnerable transportation problem of Yangpyeong, 24-seater electric low-floor buses were introduced and the Yangpyeong-Gangsang circular bus route was opened to increase accessibility to public transportation, and the congested traffic conditions in front of Yangpyeong Station were reorganized. A smooth transfer system linking railways, taxis, and buses was established centered around Yangpyeong Station. In addition, city bus routes were reorganized to pass through large apartment complexes and Yangpyeong City Center to Yangpyeong Station, transforming Yangpyeong Station into a public transportation hub.
In particular, in order to ensure the safety of residents and their convenience, we prioritized the safety of residents’ lives by subscribing to all military personnel’s safety insurance, and when the entire nation was gripped by fear due to the rental housing fraud incident, we took the lead in preventing damage by operating a rental housing fraud prevention counseling center.
Realizing health and welfare through care and consideration
Governor Jeon Jin-seon also took the lead in improving health and welfare services, which are a measure of the quality of life of the people, and in practicing health and welfare based on care and consideration.
We opened the Yangpyeong-gun Senior Welfare Center, which is equipped with the largest state-of-the-art facilities in the country, and created a place for the elderly to have a healthy and active leisure life with over 100 different programs. In addition, we strengthened the health care service for the elderly by introducing AI smart care service for the elderly living alone, installing blood pressure monitors in 370 senior centers in the district, and supporting eco-friendly rice.
In order to create a good environment for giving birth and raising children, the future of Yangpyeong, we supported postnatal care costs of 500,000 won per newborn and increased the childbirth incentive from 3 million won to 5 million won to encourage childbirth. In addition, we expanded preferential programs for families with multiple children, established the Yangpyeong Children’s Health Playground to support the healthy growth of children, and operated the Yangpyeong-gun Childcare Comprehensive Support Center, taking the lead in creating a good environment for raising children.
In addition, in order to support the growth and settlement of youth and young adults, we operate youth training facilities and youth cafes by region to support various experiential activities for youth, and actively promote housing, job, and farming support projects so that the youth of Yangpyeong-gun can grow into young adults and settle down through such measures as support for the interest on the housing loan for young newlyweds, priority selection of young farmers for eco-friendly agricultural universities, and payment of settlement support funds for young farmers.
In order to provide quality medical services and fill in the gaps in medical services, we have attracted an obstetrics and gynecology department capable of delivering babies, strengthened the emergency room function of Yangpyeong Hospital, and expanded medical services for vulnerable groups by supporting treatment management costs for elderly dementia patients and implementing free shingles vaccination for those aged 65 and older.
Tourism with vibrant jobs and ecological resources
Currently, despite its geographic advantage of being close to Seoul, Yangpyeong-gun is facing significant constraints in terms of private sector employment, such as difficulties in creating industrial complexes due to overlapping regulations such as the Capital Region Development Plan Act, development restriction zones, and water source protection zones, as well as limitations in attracting companies and establishing factories.
In this situation, Yangpyeong-gun is expanding public job projects to stabilize the lives of vulnerable groups and is providing stable jobs through job information provision, counseling, and matching between job seekers and employers by placing career counselors in township and county job centers to create diverse jobs while overcoming disadvantages due to regulations.
In particular, we are providing customized jobs, such as by creating jobs through the ‘Design Thinking Academy’ education program to foster young entrepreneurs and promoting a new-age career-type job creation project to utilize retired workers.
In the tourism sector, in order to foster the tourism industry by utilizing the value of the ecological environment, a customized tourism business is being carried out by combining Yangpyeong-gun’s tourism resources under the slogan ‘Yangpyeong is Tourism’ with plenty of things to do, see, and enjoy.
The central region plans to promote nighttime lighting projects centered on Yanggang Island and Galsan Park for beautiful scenery at night for residential tourism, create walking paths and waterside spaces on both banks of Yanggeun Stream to “turn Yanggeun Stream into Cheonggyecheon,” and create tourism infrastructure by linking the Yanggeun Riverside Specialized Road Creation Project, the Water Mist Park Pedestrian Bridge Creation Project, and the Bush Ecological Belt Creation Project.
The western region plans to improve transportation infrastructure, including making Semiwon, a provincial garden of Gyeonggi Province, the first national garden in the metropolitan area, centered around Dumulmeori and Semiwon, and relieving traffic congestion by improving transportation facilities.
Semiwon, the representative tourist attraction of Yangpyeong, is the best tourist attraction in the metropolitan area, visited by more than 400,000 people annually, and is registered as the first local garden in Gyeonggi Province. The goal is to expand the “Semiwon and Dumulmeori area,” the best eco-tourism resource in the metropolitan area, into a garden area and designate it as a national garden. In addition, preparations are underway to develop Geobukseom, which has been well preserved since the construction of Paldang Dam, into a national ecological exploration trail.
The eastern region is promoting a nighttime lighting project for residential tourism in order to transform the Yongmunsan tourist site in line with tourism trends, and for convenience of access, a separate sidewalk is being built from the tourist site to Yongmunsa Temple. In addition, a 3.4 km section from Yongmunsan Tourist Site to Gaseopbong Peak is being prepared to be the first inland cable car in the metropolitan area to be installed through private investment.
Regional development of balance and fullness
Yangpyeong-gun established a support plan for filling areas that reflects the opinions of local residents in order to overcome the development gap between the western and eastern regions.
As a balanced project, the Yangpyeong Bypass and Gunminhoe Intersection sections were expanded to six lanes. In order to relieve increased traffic congestion and prepare for urban expansion, a total of 13.5 billion won was invested in the Yanggeun-ri ~ Baekan-ri section of Yangpyeong-eup to expand the Yangpyeong Bypass to six lanes, and 1.3 billion won was invested to expand the Gunminhoe Intersection ~ Gwanmun Intersection section from four lanes to six lanes.
In addition, in order to resolve the downtown parking problem, a parking lot of about 90 spaces is planned to be built in front of the Yangpyeong-eup weather station, and a special adjustment grant of 572 million won has been secured to build a parking lot of about 100 spaces connected to Yangpyeong Station on the railroad site near the Yangpyeong-gun Health Center.
The filling project is a project in which Cheongun-myeon, Danwol-myeon, and Yangdong-myeon, which are areas with a population of less than 5,000, were selected according to the county’s filling area support plan to resolve the development gap between the eastern and western parts of Yangpyeong-gun and to respond to regional balanced development and population decline by creating a ‘living area worth living in and visiting.’
In particular, in order to overcome the risk of regional extinction due to population decline and create a ‘livable area worth living in’, a special support plan is in place to invest up to 10 billion won per district for 7 years until 2029, and each district will form its own excavation team to excavate and implement necessary projects.
At the same time, we plan to improve living infrastructure through road expansion and water supply area expansion, expand infrastructure such as city gas supply that can improve the quality of life of residents through regional balanced development, and achieve sustainable balanced development through systematic urban development projects through development of areas around stations such as Damun, Guksu, Wondeok, and Jipyeong.
Building a communication platform for civil complaints
Governor Jeon Jin-seon, who emphasizes communication above all else, has established regular communication channels with local residents and established communication channels to secure the reliability of the county administration and break through the frustration of administration.
We are creating various opportunities for citizens to participate in county administration through communication with citizens, open county governor’s offices that visit citizens, and meetings with social groups, and sharing opinions on major local issues and policies.
In addition, a communication platform utilizing spatial information and big data will be implemented to enable rapid two-way information sharing of policy projects.
Yangpyeong, a charming city filled with happiness and anticipation….Preparing for the era of 150,000 population
Yangpyeong County Governor Jeon Jin-seon habitually emphasizes “Yangpyeong, the city of charm that fills happiness and expectations.” He also said, “It is difficult to explain charm in one word, but charm is simply goodness, and a city that is well-equipped with tourism, transportation, welfare, and economy is an attractive city.”
The word charm is a dictionary definition of the power to captivate and attract people’s hearts. Yangpyeong County Governor Jeon Jin-seon dreams of making Yangpyeong, with its natural environment, a city that captivates people’s hearts by making it a city they want to visit and a city they want to stay in, and is preparing for the era of a population of 150,000 by filling the happiness of the county residents with a sustainable life satisfaction plan.
We have strengthened the emergency room function of Yuchi and Yangpyeong Hospital, supported the treatment management costs for elderly people with dementia, and implemented free shingles vaccination for people aged 65 and older, thereby expanding medical services for vulnerable groups.
Queen Choi Ha Na Reporter Photo Yangpyeong-gun
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2024-07-03 17:04:47