Designation of Public Institutions Including Child Rights Protection Agency and Self-Sufficiency Welfare Development Institute... Industry-Academia-Research Association and Hanil Hospital Deregistered

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyunjung] Four institutions, including the Child Rights Protection Agency and the Self-Sufficiency Welfare Development Institute, have been newly designated as public institutions.

On the 29th, the Ministry of Economy and Finance held a Public Institution Management Committee meeting chaired by Second Vice Minister Koo Yoon-cheol, where it reviewed and approved the '2020 Public Institution Designation Plan,' designating four institutions including the Child Rights Protection Agency as new public institutions and canceling the designation of three institutions including Hanil Hospital of the Korea Electric Power Medical Foundation.

The newly designated institutions are the Child Rights Protection Agency (Ministry of Health and Welfare), the Self-Sufficiency Welfare Development Institute (Ministry of Health and Welfare), the Livestock Environment Management Institute (Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs), and the Korea Mountaineering and Trekking Support Center (Korea Forest Service). The institutions whose designation was canceled include Hanil Hospital (Ministry of Health and Welfare), the Korea-type Numerical Weather Prediction Model Development Project Group (Korea Meteorological Administration), and the Korea Industry-Academic Cooperation Association (Ministry of SMEs and Startups).

Additionally, institutions such as the Korea Healthy Family Promotion Agency, the Korea Arboretum Management Institute, and the Korea Radioactive Waste Agency, which either increased their staff or passed a certain period after new designation, had their types changed. The Korea Healthy Family Promotion Agency and the Korea Arboretum Management Institute were changed from other public institutions to entrusted execution-type quasi-governmental agencies, while the Korea Radioactive Waste Agency was changed from a fund management-type quasi-governmental agency to an entrusted execution-type quasi-governmental agency.

Accordingly, the total number of institutions subject to management under the Public Institution Management Act was confirmed at 340, an increase of one from last year, consisting of 36 public enterprises, 95 quasi-governmental agencies, and 209 other public institutions. The designation of public institutions is the process of confirming institutions subject to the application and management of the Act on the Management of Public Institutions according to Article 6 of the same law. Designated institutions are managed to operate transparently and efficiently through systems such as total personnel cost systems, management evaluations, management guidelines, management disclosures, and customer satisfaction surveys.

Meanwhile, Korea Expressway Corporation Service, a subsidiary of Korea Expressway Corporation known to have applied for public institution designation to the Ministry of Economy and Finance, was not newly designated this time.

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