83.7% of Respondents in the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission Survey Support "Limiting Repeated Administrative Appeals"

4 People Repeatedly Filed 9,899 Claims Over 4 Years
Anti-Corruption Commission: "Will Take Steps to Improve the System"

[Asia Economy Reporter Moon Chaeseok] According to a public opinion survey conducted by the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC) on 'Improving Repetitive Administrative Appeal Requests,' 8 out of 10 respondents expressed the opinion that "it is necessary to terminate (dismiss) ex officio or impose restrictions."

The ACRC announced the results of the public opinion survey on 'Improving Repetitive Administrative Appeal Requests' conducted on the online platform 국민생각함 from the 16th to the 24th of last month on the 5th. A total of 1,538 people participated in the survey.

Article 26 of the current Administrative Appeals Act stipulates that when the Central Administrative Appeals Commission receives an appeal request from the petitioner, it must promptly send a copy of the appeal request to the respondent, but there are no provisions regarding restrictions or termination of appeal requests.

According to Article 51 of the Administrative Appeals Act, administrative appeals are prohibited for requests that have already been decided, but this also requires a series of administrative procedures such as sending a copy of the appeal request to the respondent.

The ACRC explained that over the past four years, four individuals have repeatedly filed 9,899 administrative appeals involving abusive language, defamation, personal attacks, obscene remarks, and repetitive content, causing significant waste of administrative manpower.

Regarding this, 60.9% of respondents answered, "It is an excessive request and measures should be taken," while 39.1% said, "It should be accepted and processed according to procedures."

When asked how they would respond if the processing of their administrative appeal case was delayed due to handling the above requests, 77.7% of respondents said, "The system should be improved to prevent delays," and 22.3% said, "Delays may occur but must be tolerated."

Regarding methods to supplement the system to restrict or ex officio terminate the above administrative appeal requests, 88.7% agreed.

The largest age group of respondents was in their 30s at 35.5%, followed by those in their 40s at 30.4%, and those in their 20s at 18.7%.

Im Gyuhong, Director of the Administrative Appeals Bureau at the ACRC, said, "Based on the results of this 국민생각함 opinion survey, we will prepare various measures to ensure that the processing of other petitioners' administrative appeal cases is not delayed due to unnecessary administrative appeal procedures."

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