Passive Administration Also 'Corruption'... Government Improves Corruption Impact Assessment Criteria

[Asia Economy Reporter Moon Chaeseok] The item 'passive administration' will be added to the corruption impact assessment items that must be passed when enacting or revising laws and regulations.

The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC) announced on the 21st that it has revised the operational guidelines for corruption impact assessment tasks to define passive administration, which infringes on the rights and interests of the people or causes national financial losses, as corruption, and to prevent laws that induce such behavior from being created.

The ACRC explained on the same day, "With the administrative environment rapidly changing, proactive administration has become essential," and added, "Reflecting the opinions of the corruption impact assessment advisory group formed last April, the full committee of the ACRC resolved on the 7th of this month to add the possibility of inducing passive administration to the corruption impact assessment criteria."

The ACRC conducts corruption impact assessments from the lawmaking stage of each ministry to analyze corruption risk factors and remove or improve them in advance.

In the first half of this year, it reviewed 1,010 enacted and revised laws and regulations, discovered 155 corruption risk factors in 71 laws, and recommended improvements to related agencies.

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