Gyeonggi Province Releases Results of Comprehensive Audit of Namyangju City... 85 Cases of Irrational Administration Detected

Gyeonggi Province announced on the 17th that it will release the results of a comprehensive audit conducted on Namyangju City over 12 days from July 3 to July 18 through the Gyeonggi Province website (www.gg.go.kr).

Through this audit, the province identified a total of 85 cases of improper administrative conduct and took administrative measures including one institutional warning, two recommendations for improvement, 42 cautions, and 40 directives for correction, while requesting recovery of 526 million 830 thousand won through surcharges and reductions.

Examining the main disciplinary action requests, in the case of Department D, during the decision-making for the 2020 Namyangju Urban Management Plan (Redevelopment), it was confirmed that the department ignored the Environmental Ministry's strategic environmental impact assessment consultation opinion to 'reduce changes in land use zones' and failed to establish a district unit plan containing measures to expand infrastructure such as roads.

In particular, after determining that upzoning of land use zones granted benefits such as land value increases to landowners in addition to unplanned development, the province requested accountability measures for relevant personnel.

Additionally, an institutional warning was issued after discovering that across 31 departments, dunning periods for delinquent non-tax local revenue had expired before dunning notices were issued, or in some cases, dunning notices have not been issued to date, citing the failure of delinquent taxpayer management divisions to fulfill their responsibilities and obligations.

Beyond this, despite the requirement that there must be authorization by law when imposing new obligations on residents, it was revealed that the size of the urban planning committee consultation target for development permit approval was determined by ordinance without receiving authorization from higher-level law. The province recommended improvements to this matter.

A Gyeonggi Province official stated, "Compared to the number of disciplinary actions (67 cases) required in the 2013 comprehensive audit, the number of disciplinary cases has increased, indicating that there are still many issues where precedent is being followed or administrative improvements have not been made," adding, "In future administrative processing, efforts should be made to improve the system and strengthen internal controls to ensure substantive and lawful administration."