In this year's architectural administration evaluation, Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province and Busan Metropolitan City were selected as the top local governments.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) on the 14th stated accordingly based on the results of the "2025 architectural administration evaluation" conducted on 246 local governments nationwide. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has conducted evaluations of all local governments nationwide every year since 1999 to ensure the substantive operation of architectural administration.
This year's evaluation was conducted in general and special categories. The general category comprehensively evaluated the rationality of architectural administrative procedures, safety management, appropriateness of maintenance, and efforts to improve architectural administration.
Among them, in the general category evaluation for metropolitan governments, Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province and Busan Metropolitan City each ranked first. Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province received high marks across overall items, including satisfaction with building permit processing and efforts to improve architectural services, and recorded the highest score among the nine provinces.
Busan Metropolitan City received high marks in the appropriateness of maintenance, including regular inspections of buildings and management of illegal structures, and was selected No. 1 among the special city, special self-governing city, and metropolitan cities.
For basic local governments, 15 metropolitan governments, excluding Sejong City and Jeju Province, directly evaluated the basic local governments under their jurisdiction. As a result, Seoul Gwanak District, Busan Buk District, Daegu Dalseong County, Incheon Seo District, Gwangju Gwangsan District, Daejeon Seo District, Ulsan Nam District, and Gyeonggi Gwangmyeong City were selected as excellent local governments.
In the special category, which solicited and evaluated cases of improving unreasonable building regulations, a total of 40 cases—13 from metropolitan governments and 27 from basic local governments—were shortlisted. As a result of the evaluation, Daejeon Metropolitan City and Gwangsan District in Gwangju Metropolitan City were selected as exemplary cases.
Daejeon City was positively evaluated for its efforts to improve regulations by systematically identifying institutional improvement tasks through the "building regulation improvement and innovation system," seeking expert advice, and pushing to revise the local government ordinance.
Gwangsan District in Gwangju was highly rated for "building a zero arbitrary regulation platform through regulatory standardization automation and citizen participation," which reduced interpretation gaps among officials and provided citizens with highly reliable regulatory information.
Jang Woo-cheol, director-general for building policy at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, said, "Architectural administration is a 24-hour, life-oriented service directly tied to people's lives, jobs, and safety, and it shapes the first impression of overall administration," adding, "We will continue to refine the system so that architectural administration can contribute to improving people's quality of life."