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Won-cheol Shin : Chairman of the Seoul Metropolitan Council

Dear fellow citizens, As the Chairman of the Seoul Metropolitan Council, I am immensely pleased and honored to welcome you to the official website of the council.

The tenth assembly of the council has finally opened with the support and encouragement of our fellow citizens who yearn for a new, changed era. I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to all those who supported me in chairing the Seoul Metropolitan Council and playing an important role in the national effort for the promotion of local autonomy and decentralization.

Every vote counts. We council members are well aware that all the earnest wishes of our citizens are expressed through the last local election, and that we were elected to honor their demands.

That is why we will work harder in a more harmonious manner to follow the orders of the citizens of Seoul, stressing “communication,” “cooperation,” and “government based on combined effort” as well as the constitutional principles of “parliamentary scrutiny” and “check and balance of powers.”

I believe that the result of the latest election also means that our council should try harder to show examples for the 17 other provincial and metropolitan councils by avoiding destructive political disputes while more actively pursuing mutual prosperity and cooperative governance based on communication and mutual understanding.

I am also well aware that, from the election result, our dear citizens of Seoul want this Council to be more faithful to its responsibility for the scrutiny of the Seoul Metropolitan Government; thus playing a leading role in the development of Korea’s local autonomy and balance of powers.

We the members of the Council will try our best to fulfill the demands and wishes of our citizens via policies designed to meet them and bring substantial changes to the citizens’ daily lives.

Finally, we will cooperate closely with the central government for the materialization of a more complete local autonomy wherein our citizens are the true owners of this great city of Seoul.

Thank you.

Won-cheol Shin
Chairman of the Seoul Metropolitan Council