Yang Byeong-u named to head Jeju’s first facilities management corporation, which will oversee 42 sewage and environmental facilities

【Financial News Jeju = Jeong Yong-bok】 Yang Byeong-u (68), former vice chairman of the Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Council, has been named as the candidate to become the first president of the Jeju Facilities Management Corporation, which will gradually take over the management and operation of 42 sewage and environmental facilities in Jeju. He will be responsible for running Jeju’s first local public corporation, set to launch next January, and is expected to be formally appointed after a provincial council confirmation hearing in December.
According to Jeju Special Self-Governing Province on the 10th, Yang is from Daejeong-eup, Seogwipo, and spent about 35 years in public service, from 1982 to 2017. He worked in water and sewerage, the environment and urban affairs, and held posts including director-general of Seogwipo City’s Environment, Urban Planning and Construction Bureau and head of the Sewerage Division at Jeju Province’s Water and Sewerage Headquarters.
During his public service career, he took part in improving sewage treatment methods, developing Saekdal Landfill, and establishing and operating recycling support centers. After retiring, he served as operations director of the Odor Management Center at the Jeju Green Environment Support Center.
Yang served as a member of the 11th and 12th Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Councils from 2020 through June this year, and was vice chairman during the second half of the 12th council’s term. Jeju Province said it nominated him as the candidate to become the corporation’s first president after comprehensively considering his experience managing environmental infrastructure and his background in administration and legislative work.
The Jeju Facilities Management Corporation is a local public corporation being established to manage environmental infrastructure facilities as a whole, including those Jeju Province has operated directly or contracted out to private companies. With the corporation’s launch, the operating systems for 42 facilities across Jeju—including 39 sewage facilities and three environmental facilities—will be changed in stages.

The corporation plans to launch in January 2027 and begin operating public sewage treatment facilities in July of that year. It will take over metropolitan waste treatment and night-soil treatment facilities in 2028, followed in 2029 by the Jeju Public Sewage Treatment Facility. Ensuring stable facility operations and securing qualified personnel are key challenges for the corporation’s first management team.
The corporation’s establishment gained an institutional basis when the Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Council passed the relevant ordinance in March this year. In July, it approved a proposal to contribute 500 million won in initial capital. In the first open recruitment for staff in September, 592 people applied for 23 positions, an average competition ratio of 25.7 to 1.
However, no one applied for the grade-2 team leader position overseeing sewerage operations in the first recruitment round. Securing key technical staff is important, as the corporation will take over facilities requiring specialized technical expertise, including sewage and waste treatment facilities. Addressing the employment and working conditions of existing public-sector workers and employees of private contractors will also be a challenge during the transition to the new operating system.
Jeju Province plans to request a confirmation hearing from the provincial council this month and formally appoint the corporation’s president after the hearing process in December. The corporation is scheduled to complete its establishment registration and officially launch next January.


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