Special Act(Summarization)

1. To authorize the right of selfgovernance

• The revision of local selfgoverning law
  • To add special selfgoverning province to largeunit local selfgoverning groups.
    • Current special city, largeunit city and province → To add special selfgoverning province.
  • Jeju possesses a special legal status comparable to Seoul metropolitan government.
    • Autonomous status and position different from the other 16 cities and provinces.
• Extended Selfgoverning Right
  • Implementation of the Legislation regarding Selfgoverning.
  • To transfer a significant portion of the central governments affairs to the local government and expand the ordinance mandate.
  • To provide the right to request a higher level of bill proposition authority rather than be limited to only proposing bill revision.
  • Implementation of autonomous organization and personnel management and human resource system autonomy.
    • Opentype position, personnel management depending on the ability, accomplishment, cultivation and station of competent persons.
    • Implementation of professional development training to improve the competition and expertise of public servants.
  • Establishment of autonomous audit system.
    • Exempting of each department, on Jeju, from inspection including the central joint inspection.
    • Inspection of the Assembly and the Board of Audit and Inspection is maintained .
• Special case on administrative structure
  • eju Province + 2 cities and 2 counties(selfgoverning bodies)
    • Jeju Special Selfgoverning Province + 2 administration cities without selfgoverning rights.
  • Administrative and financial benefits currently enjoyed by Jeju are maintained.
• Increasing Citizen Participation
  • Recall system against Elected public servants(Governor, Council members, Superintendent and Members of the Board of Education).
  • Legal organization of autonomous resident committees in counties.
  • To reinvigorate the citizensdirect participation system .
    • Introduction of the referendum system concerning finance, deregulation and the enacting and revision of the ordinances.
• Strengthened function of the Local Council
  • Adjustment of the number of council members.
  • 19 members of Local Council + 7 members of the Board of Education → 41 members including the members of Board of Education.
  • Reenforcement of the support function by assigning 3 political advisory members to each standing committee.
• The right of financial autonomy
  • The procedures to support the national subsides was legalized as the fixed rate(3%) of general grants.
  • To receive stable national support for the transformation of national affairs to Jeju and national subsidy business by creating a Jeju account in the special accounts for the balanced national development.
• To lead Autonomous education system
  • Superintendent and education members are selected by citizens
  • To set up the education council as the standing committee at the provincial council.
  • To support grants for local education according to the rate fixed by law( 1.57% of the total grant).
• An autonomous police force independent from the National Police Agency
  • Autonomous police group belonging to the Province and autonomous police body to administrative cities.
  • Security service related with residents such as tourism, environment and basic public order.
  • To transfer the management of traffic security functions of the national police agency into the autonomous policy.
• To transfer the special local administrative agency
  • 7 agencies required for citizen convenience, and whose functions parallel those at the province level, will be transferred initially.
  • 7 agencies : Jeju Regional Construction Management Office, Jeju Regional Small and Medium Business Administration, Jeju Regional Maritime Affairs and Fisheries and Office, Jeju Environmental Branch Office, Jeju Patriots & Veterans Affairs Branch Office, Jeju Regional Labor Committee, Jeju Regional Labor Office, etc.

2. To promote key industries

• To revitalize the tourism industry
  • To transfer the authority related with tourism industry.
  • To appoint Jeju, in its entirety, as an international convention city.
  • The establishment of Jeju Tourism Corporation to promote the tourism industry.
• To offer education service suitable for the free international city
  • The founding and operation of autonomous elementary, middle and high schools.
  • The founding and operation of an international high school.
  • The establishment and operation of foreign universities in concert with local universities, including community colleges.
• To offer specialized and quality medical services
  • To allow foreign corporations to build and invest in commercial hospitals.
  • Improvement of medical environment and competition by deregulating medical industries.
• To nurture and support the first clean industry
  • To transfer the authority to designate and remove agricultural and forest villages and agricultural promotion areas.
  • To foster the clean stock farming environment and to protect and raise high value traditional livestock.
  • To transfer the authority to manage forests to protect the ecology and foster forest resources.
  • Selfmanagement suitable for the region in regards to fishing ground and coastal maintenance.
• To nurture and support hightech industry
  • Extension of tax reduction and preparation for fostering the base by assigning investment promotion areas for IT and BT related industries and through deregulation.
  • To support reinvestment, establishment of business and management of hightech industries through long lease, reduction of lease fees of publicly owned properties, and by providing a hiring subsidy.
• < Promotion System>
  • To set up the supporting commission for Jeju special selfgoverning province at the prime ministerial level.
  • Creation of an MOU regarding performance goals between the supporting commission and Jeju special selfgoverning province .
  • Continuous and phased promotion to accomplish the special selfgoverning province.
  • To transfer central government authority to the special selfgoverning province and to implement regulations suitable for the special selfgoverning province.
  • To improve overall regulations except the necessary regulations based on the Negative System
  • ´05 : Authority transfer (350 cases) and regulation relaxation for key industries concurrent with the establishment of the special law regarding the selfgoverning province
  • To review existing regulations, as a whole, by introducing the two step Negative System

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