Bucheon-si Achieves Grade A in Board of Audit and Inspection's Internal Audit Activity Evaluation

Bucheon City Hall

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyesook] Bucheon City in Gyeonggi Province has achieved the highest grade, A, among 68 local governments with populations over 300,000 in this year's Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI) self-audit activity evaluation.

The BAI annually evaluates the self-audit organizations of central administrative agencies, local governments, and public institutions to enhance the substance of self-audit activities. It assesses the previous year's audit infrastructure, audit activities, audit outcomes, and follow-up management, assigning grades of A (Excellent), B (Good), C (Average), or D (Insufficient).

Bucheon City received the highest grade in recognition of its contributions to improving administrative trust and transparency by implementing measures such as hiring open recruitment audit officers to conduct fair and lawful audits, preventive audits to eradicate corruption and habitual misconduct, strengthening expertise through the participation of external expert auditors, and systematizing the internal audit system.

Since last year, based on the expertise of audit officers with legal backgrounds, the city has been praised for conducting prompt and bold audit work through proactive and rational decision-making. Additionally, by focusing audit capabilities on enhancing auditor expertise and improving the external expert system, Bucheon has significantly improved the quality of self-audits and presented a vision of auditors not only as administrative overseers but also as collaborators.

Mayor Jang Deokcheon of Bucheon stated, "We will continue to ensure that audit officers fulfill their roles not only as administrative overseers but also as collaborators, striving to maintain the nation's best audit system."

Meanwhile, in addition to the BAI self-audit evaluation A grade this year, Bucheon City has achieved various accomplishments, including being recognized as an excellent institution in Gyeonggi Province's self-audit evaluation, receiving the Prime Minister's Award for outstanding autonomous internal control, and becoming the first metropolitan city with a population over 500,000 to achieve a corruption perception rating of grade 2 or higher for nine consecutive years.

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