Linked with Ministry of Government Legislation API to detect higher-level law amendments in real time
Built directly by district staff learning club
The Gangnam-gu District Office in Seoul (headed by District Mayor Cho Sungmyeong) announced on the 24th that it has independently built the “Local Regulations Smart Maintenance System” using artificial intelligence (AI) to promptly reflect amendments to higher-level laws.
Main screen of the Gangnam-gu Autonomous Ordinance Smart Maintenance System. Provided by Gangnam-gu.
Previously, whenever a higher-level law was amended, the person in charge had to manually review each individual ordinance and rule to determine whether revisions were needed. In this process, amendment items were sometimes missed, and revisions to local regulations were often delayed.
The new system is designed to link with the Ministry of Government Legislation’s API, automatically collect amendment details of higher-level statutes, and then compare them with the district’s local regulations to indicate whether maintenance is required. In particular, it is drawing attention because members of the district staff learning club “Gangnam-gu Policy Hackers” directly participated in development, thereby practicing proactive administration that solves on-site issues on their own.
Once a day, the system collects the latest information on laws and provisions and compares it with existing data. If any provision has changed, it stores the revision history and marks related district ordinances and rules as “Review Required.” When an ordinance is opened, users can see at a glance the contents before and after the change, as well as the provisions affected. Each department can draft and revise review comments within the system, and the history of changes to those comments is retained, making it easy to track the basis for decisions even when personnel change or when departments collaborate.
In addition, the system has generated a “Legislative Draft Checklist,” which categorizes recurring drafting errors and supplementary points that have been repeatedly pointed out during council deliberations through AI-based pattern analysis. This checklist organizes key items ranging from the necessity of legislation and consistency with higher-level laws to the structure of provisions, terminology and sentences, and supplementary provisions, so that errors can be preemptively filtered out from the drafting stage of new or amended bills.
Gangnam-gu District Mayor Cho Sungmyeong said, “When laws change, local regulations must be updated in a timely manner to prevent administrative gaps. By using the AI-powered Smart Maintenance System, we will improve both response speed and consistency, and by utilizing the Legislative Draft Checklist, we will reduce recurring errors so that residents can use administrative services without unnecessary confusion.”
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