Gangdong-gu, headed by Mayor Lee Jung-hun, has established an ‘Innovation Plan for Regional Community’ that contains nine cooperation projects with the aim of creating “Gangdong where the public and private sectors communicate and fulfill their promises.” The nine projects will be carried out jointly by April 2019 and Seoul City is supposed to provide KRW 162,950,000 to put them into practice.

Cooperation projects are evaluated to have expanded the scope of fields in which residents can participate, ranging from short-term agendas related to people’s livelihood to long-term ones regarding the environment and culture. The Office has finalized the nine projects through diverse discussions and education intended to strengthen cooperative competence to reflect residents’ opinions in its policies.

They include improving the environment to solve conflict between residents, upgrading “petiquette,” giving education on environmental ecology, expanding the traditional culture, activating the village community, enhancing young people’s labor rights, expanding generational communication, and enhancing the regional welfare.

Before starting the projects, Gangdong-gu will form a task force consisting of cooperation coordinators and cooperation supporters to move forward aggressively.

“Considering residents’ expectations for cooperative governance, we will put into practice projects that could innovate the regional community based on our experience,” said Mayor Lee Jung-hun, adding that “we expect the nine projects to fulfill what the public and private sectors anticipate and serve as a driving force to realize cooperative governance.”

Meanwhile, the Office laid the institutional groundwork for cooperative governance in February by enacting a ‘basic ordinance for private-public cooperative governance in Gangdong-gu, Seoul’ and forming the ‘Gangdong-gu Council for Cooperative Governance,’ an official organization.