Gyeonggi Province Governor Choo Mi-ae faces a citizen petition demanding her resignation after the province declared a financial emergency and cut 546.5 billion won from its supplementary budget. Posted on the provincial petition website on Sept. 11, the petition passed 10,000 participants at about 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 14, triggering a requirement for Choo to respond within 30 days. The petitioner challenged the fiscal-emergency declaration, cited cuts of more than half to public-servant incentives and criticized the lease of a 47-pyeong official residence with a deposit exceeding 1.2 billion won. The province said its 2026 essential-livelihood budget covered only nine months and that existing funds and internal resources had largely been used, leaving little additional fiscal capacity. Hong Eun-gwang, a provincial spokesperson, said the petition distorted the government’s budget decisions, but the statement did not address the residence. The dispute follows the planned termination of Gyeonggi’s 500,000-won postpartum care subsidy after Sept. 30, along with funding pressure on municipal welfare programs, public institutions and five provincial hospitals. A separate petition opposing the postpartum subsidy cutoff also exceeded 10,000 participants, while the provincial council reviewed measures to restore some reductions.