Gimcheon City Wins Top Proactive Administration Award in North Gyeongsang... Eases Farmers' Burdens

Achievements in Streamlining Applications for Agricultural Machinery Support Programs and Building an Online System

Gimcheon City in North Gyeongsang Province won the top award in the province’s proactive administration category in recognition of its achievements in citizen-centered administrative innovation.

The city announced that it received the top award at the “2026 Gyeongsangbuk-do Innovation and Proactive Administration Best Practices Competition,” held on October 16 at The-K Hotel Gyeongju.

The award-winning case, submitted by the Smart Agriculture Division under the title “You’re Asking Us to Come Back to Apply? Improving Inconveniences in the Field,” was highly praised for addressing the repeated administrative procedures and other inconveniences faced by farmers.

Gimcheon City simplified the application process by consolidating the application periods and forms for nine types of agricultural machinery support programs. It also built its own online system for applications for byproducts from government-distributed rice, reducing the inconvenience of having to repeatedly visit administrative agencies.

Gimcheon Mayor Bae Naho said, “This award is the result of public officials’ efforts to consider and act from the citizens’ perspective. We will continue to realize citizen-centered administration through administrative innovation that citizens can experience firsthand.”

Administrative efforts to address the small inconveniences experienced by citizens and farmers have led to this award.

Attention is focused on whether proactive administration that reflects voices from the field in policy can become a competitive strength for Gimcheon City’s administrative innovation.

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