Gwak Sang-wook, Osan Mayor, Elected as Head of Gyeonggi Province Mayors and Governors Council

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Seo Dong-young] Gwak Sang-wook, mayor of Osan, has been elected as the second-term chairman of the Gyeonggi Province Mayors and Governors Council under the seventh popularly elected term.

The Gyeonggi Province Mayors and Governors Council, composed of 31 heads of basic local governments within Gyeonggi Province, held its seventh regular meeting on the 15th in Goyang City with attendance from 31 mayors and governors, and elected Mayor Gwak Sang-wook as the second-term chairman.

Mayor Gwak's term will run from January next year through June 2022, when the seventh popularly elected term ends.

Mayor Gwak stated, "I feel a profound sense of responsibility in being elected chairman at such an important time both domestically and internationally," and added, "As a three-term mayor, I will do my utmost to achieve maximum local autonomy during the second half of the seventh term based on my administrative experience and know-how."

He further emphasized, "I will establish joint research meetings with participation from local governments within Gyeonggi Province to create a learning platform for local autonomy and municipal development, and by sharing its achievements, I will make every effort for our local government to take a leap forward as one that realizes true local self-governance in both name and reality."

Mayor Gwak Sang-wook currently serves as chairman of the Gyeonggi Province Basic Local Governments Heads Council of the Democratic Party, senior vice chairman of the National Lifelong Learning Cities Council, and secretary-general of the Mok Min Officials Club.