Gyeongju City, Third Grade Overall Integrity Assessment … 2 Steps More Than Last Year

Gyeongju City received a third grade in the 2020 Korea Rights Commission’s Comprehensive Integrity Assessment, two stages more than last year. Gyeongju Mayor Nak-yeong Joo will host a cleaning ceremony for public officials earlier this year.

Gyeongju City, Gyeongsangbuk-do, received a comprehensive third grade in the 2020 integrity assessment conducted by the Korea National Rights Commission, increasing in two stages from last year.

According to the Korea National Human Rights Commission and Gyeongju City on the 9th, in the ‘Comprehensive Integrity Assessment in 2020’, it registered a ‘Comprehensive Third Grade (7.83 points)’ among 75 basic local governments nationwide, rising two stages vertically from the fifth grade overall last year (6.80 points).

By field, in the external integrity evaluation of 319 civil petitioners, △ 8.21 points of experience of corruption were received, which was 0.19 points higher than the national average of 8.02 points.

In addition, in the assessment of vulnerability to corruption, the score was high with △ service management and supervision 9.64 points △ subsidy support 9.52 points △ recovery 9.14 points △ authorization / permit 8.21 points.

This is an assessment that Gyeongju City’s intensive integrity and anti-corruption policies have been intensively implemented since the launch of the seventh civilian election.

The city △ opened an ‘integrity call’ directly through the marketplace to report corruption and corruption of public officials △ hired vacancies outside the auditor and introduced a citizen inspector system △ reflected the results of the integrity assessment of civil servants above team leader △ Conducted integrity training for all employees to carry out a culture of integrity.

In addition, by operating the Clean Career Promotion Planning Team, the ‘Integrity Countermeasures Promotion Meeting’, in which the main executives such as the mayor, director and department heads participate, is held regularly once a quarter, thus solidifying the will of integrity for all employees of each department.

In particular, Gyeongju City has created a ‘Building Permit Division’ in charge of building permits and dispersed permits in each department to drastically reduce the processing period for civil petitions. The ‘People’s Happiness Civil Affairs Office’ was inaugurated, replacing social media and giving priority to the socially weak.

Thanks to these efforts, the award of the President’s Award for the ‘Unique National Evaluation of the Public Function’ by the Ministry of Public Administration and Security and the selection of an excellent organization for the ‘Office of Civil Affairs for the Happiness of the People ‘acted as a factor to increase integrity.

Gyeongju Mayor Joo Nak-young said: “We received an overall high score for external integrity assessed by civilians. There appears to have been a positive impact on the corruption prevention efforts that the city of Gyeongju has been working on. Gyeongju “.

Sungwoong Kim reporter [email protected]

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