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Busan Metropolitan City Holds Online Citizen Voting to Select Outstanding Public Officials for Active Administration

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Busan Metropolitan City (Mayor Park Heong-joon) announced that it will conduct an “online vote” from today (August 22) through August 28 to select the “Outstanding Public Officials for Active Administration for the First Half of 2025.”

<Overview of Online Voting> - Period: August 22 (Fri) to August 28 (Thu), 2025 ‣ 7 days - Eligible Participants: All citizens (including city employees) - Content: Selection of outstanding cases of active administration for the first half of 2025 · Select 10 out of 20 outstanding cases of active administration that passed the first practical review - Method: Access via the city website survey* (Citizen Portal for citizens / Administrative Portal for employees) *Busan Civil Service 120 → Citizen Participation → Survey

The city has been promoting active administration to foster a public service culture that encourages challenge and practice. As part of this effort, it selects “Outstanding Public Officials for Active Administration” every half year, recognizing those who contribute to municipal development through creative and professional proactive work, while also identifying and disseminating exemplary cases.

Selected officials receive exceptional personnel benefits such as special promotions and top-level performance bonuses, as well as common incentives including additional points for policy training, monetary awards, and other recognitions.

Since 2021, the city has been implementing online voting to ensure the selection and dissemination of active administration cases that citizens can directly empathize with and experience. The results of the online vote account for 12 percent of the total score in the final evaluation of “Outstanding Public Officials for Active Administration.”

The results of the online vote and the evaluation score from the Active Administration Committee will be combined, and the final selection of outstanding public officials will be made in September.

Citizens who wish to participate in this selection process can cast their votes during the voting period through the city’s website survey (www.busan.go.kr/minwon/survey

), where they may choose 10 out of the 20 active administration cases that passed the internal review.

Meanwhile, in November of last year, the city won one Excellence Award* and two Encouragement Awards** at the “2024 Active Administration Best Practices Competition,” jointly organized by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, the Ministry of Personnel Management, and the Office for Government Policy Coordination. The city plans to continue making every effort to spread a culture of active administration in the public service and to discover high-quality best practices through the selection of outstanding public officials for active administration this year as well.

Implementation of a new collection method through the seizure of convertible bonds and establishment of a redemption system for anonymous prepaid cards and gift certificates (City Tax Administration Division)

** Establishment of the nation’s first standard guidelines for underground passage emergency evacuation routes and facilities, setting a nationwide standard! (City Road Planning Division); Improved aged heat transport pipes resolving 45,000 households’ civil complaints that lasted nine years in one stroke (Busan Environmental Corporation)

Lee Kyung-deok, Director General of Planning, stated, “To create a city where citizens are happy and to enhance urban competitiveness, flexible problem-solving capabilities that transcend conventions and regulations, along with a proactive public service culture, are essential,” and added, “We ask for your continued interest and participation so that ‘active administration,’ which citizens can truly experience, can be further promoted.”