Will the word 'Gapjil' disappear from Busan Port?

Busan Port Authority Expands BPA Integrity Citizen Auditors
Spreading Anti-Corruption Integrity Culture ... Committed to Completely Eradicating Gapjil

Integrity Letter from Busan Port Authority.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] The word ‘gapjil’ does not exist at Busan Port(?). Busan Port Authority (BPA) is expanding the operation of the Integrity Citizen Auditor system, a private-participation anti-corruption system that has been in operation since last year to create a sound and transparent organizational culture.

BPA introduced the Integrity Ombudsman system in 2010 to create a ‘Clean Busan Port’ and has expanded it to the Integrity Citizen Auditor system since 2014.

The Integrity Citizen Auditors consist of four experts in accounting, operations, and construction fields. To strengthen external oversight of management and fairness in work, from August, one legal expert in the shipping and port sector was added, expanding the team to five members.

The main activity scope of the Citizen Auditors has also expanded from initially monitoring and evaluating project progress and proposing anti-corruption and integrity policies to include corruption and safety inspections, gapjil status investigations, joint investigations of audit reports, and joint inspections of employee codes of conduct.

Busan Port Authority established the ‘BPA Gapjil Eradication Measures’ earlier this year and prepared detailed implementation plans to operate related systems that eliminate regulatory and institutional factors causing gapjil, run a gapjil reporting support center, and strictly punish unfair practices or serious gapjil acts under a zero-tolerance principle.

Recently, when signing contracts for accounting, tax, and information security consulting, a ‘Letter of Integrity’ signed by the president was delivered to the relevant companies, and the letter of integrity is delivered for all contracts with external customers.

President Nam Ki-chan said, “Through rigorous ethical management practices and the activities of the Integrity Citizen Auditors, we will systematically diagnose factors causing corruption and create a clean and transparent Busan Port.”

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