Kimcheon City Takes 'One Team' Approach for Second Phase Public Institution Relocations... Joins Hands with Labor Unions on Attraction Strategy

Meeting Held with Labor Unions of First-Phase Relocated Institutions
Discussing Improvements in Residential Conditions and Joint Attraction Strategies

Kimcheon City in North Gyeongsang Province has joined hands with the labor unions of public institutions that relocated to Kimcheon Innovative City to prepare for the second phase of public institution relocations to the provinces.

The city plans to enhance the residential competitiveness of the innovative city and jointly develop strategies to attract public institutions, reflecting the firsthand opinions of employees who have already relocated.

Kimcheon City announced that on July 14, it held a 'Second Relocation of Public Institutions-related Labor Union Meeting' at the auditorium on the first floor of the Industry-Academia-Research Network Support Center.

Group photo after the 'Second Relocation of Public Institutions Labor Union Meeting'
Photo by Gimcheon City

This meeting was organized to proactively respond to the government's second phase policy for relocating public institutions to provincial areas and to strengthen the cooperation system between the municipality and labor unions.

In particular, the focus was on having employees of the first phase relocated public institutions share their real-life experiences regarding the strengths and weaknesses of the innovative city, and incorporating these insights into strategies for the second phase of relocations and policies to improve residential conditions.

The meeting was attended by the Vice Mayor of Kimcheon City, the head of the Planning and Budget Office, the head of the Future Innovation Strategy Bureau, and other related city officials, as well as representatives from the labor unions of public institutions relocated to Kimcheon Innovative City.

The participants shared the current status of Kimcheon City's response to the second phase of public institution relocations and discussed joint response strategies based on policy trends from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and North Gyeongsang Province. They also actively listened to a wide range of suggestions from the field to improve residential conditions in areas such as transportation, education, healthcare, and culture.

The city plans to continue expanding the cooperation network with labor unions to increase the effectiveness of its strategies for attracting public institutions. Kimcheon City believes that, beyond simply bringing in institutions, creating a city where the members of relocated institutions actually want to live is the core of its competitiveness for the second phase.

Mayor Bae Nakho of Kimcheon City stated, "For the successful attraction of the second phase of public institution relocations, the voices and strong solidarity of employees from the first phase, who have directly lived and led the growth of the innovative city, are more important than anything else."

He added, "Going forward, the municipality and the labor unions will work together as one team, doing our utmost to continuously improve residential conditions and attract competitive institutions."

Kimcheon City plans to actively reflect the suggestions on residential environment improvements raised during the meeting in its municipal administration, while also accelerating its efforts to attract public institutions in the second phase through ongoing communication with labor unions.

The competition for the second phase of public institution relocations is expected to be determined not by which city attracts the most institutions, but by which city becomes a place where the members of relocated institutions genuinely want to live. Kimcheon City's focus on practical field communication with labor unions as the starting point of its attraction strategy is being evaluated as a realistic approach to boosting substantive residential competitiveness.

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