Gyeonggi Province Reissues Legislative Notice on Revised Restructuring Plan, Reflecting Public Input on Agricultural Policy, Social Solidarity Economy and Immigrant Communities

Gyeonggi Province issued a revised advance legislative notice on November 10, reflecting opinions submitted by residents and relevant institutions and organizations during the comment period for its proposed organizational restructuring.

Gyeonggi Province received a total of 565 comments during the advance legislative notice period from October 21 to 26. After reviewing and incorporating them, it will issue a renewed advance legislative notice for the ordinance amendment for two days, through November 11. The main comments concerned the social solidarity economy, agriculture, fisheries and livestock animal welfare, and immigrant communities.

Gyeonggi Province said that, in written briefings by its spokesperson on October 27 and November 6, Governor Choo Mi-ae had instructed officials to thoroughly review the opinions raised during the advance legislative notice period. She had specifically called for stronger coordination and cooperation based on expertise while maintaining the independence of the agriculture, fisheries and life sciences and livestock animal welfare sectors. Governor Choo also emphasized that the chain of command for the two sectors should be unified under the Second Administrative Vice Governor, and that the response system for livestock infectious diseases and the functions responsible for animal welfare policy should be strengthened.

Accordingly, Gyeonggi Province has prepared a revised plan that retains the Agriculture, Fisheries and Life Sciences Bureau and the Livestock and Animal Welfare Bureau as separate entities, while unifying their chains of command under the Second Administrative Vice Governor. The aim is to make the most of expertise in each field, ensure close cooperation on matters requiring a joint response, improve the consistency and effectiveness of work, and strengthen the systems for implementing disease prevention and animal welfare policies.

Gyeonggi Provincial Government

In the social solidarity economy sector, the province will strengthen its policy implementation framework beyond the original restructuring plan, including by expanding the number of dedicated departments to two and covering community support functions. It will rename the Economic Planning Officer within the Economic and Industrial Office the Economic and Social Solidarity Planning Officer, bolstering the planning and coordination of social solidarity economy and community support policies. Through coordination with economic policy, the province plans to support both the growth of social economy enterprises and the revitalization of local communities.

To support foreign residents, the province will establish a Multicultural and Immigration Society Division within the Gender Equality and Family Bureau, strengthening its overall role in supporting settlement. The division will serve not only multicultural families but foreign residents more broadly, while coordinating shared needs such as childcare and caregiving with family policies. Labor and visa work will be transferred to the labor sector, and the recruitment of international students to the Future Generations Bureau, to strengthen expertise in each field and prevent gaps or inconvenience in support.

Under its restructuring approach of consolidating similar and overlapping functions and concentrating organizational capacity on key administrative needs, Gyeonggi Province prepared this revised plan to reflect comments raised on the ground. After gathering further comments through the renewed advance legislative notice, it plans to submit the ordinance amendment to the Gyeonggi Provincial Council. Changes at the division level will be implemented through amendments to the enforcement rules after the ordinance is passed.

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