Oh Se-hoon to Sign 'Clean Seoul Practice Agreement' with Seoul City Government's Two Major Labor Unions on 8th and 9th

Declaration of Commitment and Cooperation to Foster an Honest Public Service Culture Aiming for Integrity Level 1 Achievement

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] The Seoul Metropolitan Government is set to sign the 'Clean Seoul Practice Agreement' with the Seoul Metropolitan Government Employees' Union to become a top-tier organization trusted by its citizens for integrity.

Mayor Oh Se-hoon will hold separate signing ceremonies on the 8th and 9th at the Seoul City Hall video conference room with the two major unions representing Seoul city officials: the ‘Seoul Metropolitan Government Employees' Union’ and the ‘National Government Employees' Union Seoul City Hall Branch’.

Through this agreement, Seoul plans to demonstrate its firm commitment to fostering a clean public service culture to its citizens and jointly promote a fair, transparent organizational culture and integrity in public service. The goal is to elevate the integrity rating, announced annually by the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission, to the highest first-grade level.

According to the agreement, Seoul and the two major unions will mutually cooperate to create a fair and transparent organizational culture, ensure full participation of all employees in anti-corruption and integrity policies to improve integrity, jointly eradicate corrupt practices such as improper solicitations and unreasonable customs, and collaborate on implementing tasks to spread the Clean Seoul Practice Agreement and integrity culture.

Meanwhile, Seoul is implementing various policies to build a culture of integrity. It is promoting the ‘One Office, Headquarters, and Bureau One Integrity Practice Task’ to discover and implement integrity and organizational culture improvement tasks tailored to each institution’s work characteristics, and also conducts mandatory integrity education for all employees. Additionally, to enhance external integrity, since 2019, Seoul has been sending ‘Integrity Notification Texts’ to business partners in areas such as construction and service supervision and subsidy disbursement, and operates a ‘Happy Call’ system to gather diverse feedback from Seoul citizens regarding the city’s fairness and work promptness.

Mayor Oh Se-hoon stated, “The era when a country or city is evaluated by national income figures or economic rankings is over. Once surpassing a national income of 30,000 dollars, values rather than numbers, and maturity rather than growth, become the higher goals to pursue.” He added, “We will do our best until the day Seoul regains the trust of its citizens through integrity and leaps forward as a special city of integrity.”

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