"I Will Be Born with Integrity" Hamyang-gun, A New Start to Improve Integrity Levels

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Gyeongnam Hamyang-gun, which has remained in the lower ranks with a corruption perception grade of 4 for five years, is establishing and implementing a comprehensive plan to improve integrity to regain the trust of residents and improve the image of a clean Hamyang.

According to the county on the 28th, the comprehensive plan to improve integrity, based on the fundamental direction of "Let's cultivate integrity," aims to raise the county's integrity level through the gradual, cyclical, and perceptible creation of an integrity culture.

The county's integrity grades have remained in the lower ranks over the past five years, with a grade of 4 in 2017, 5 in 2018, and 4 in both 2019 and last year.

Building on previous integrity policies such as Integrity Happy Calls, integrity monitoring, the Friendly 5S Movement, operation of the Integrity Planning Team, and cooperation agreements for integrity policy promotion with related organizations, the county will implement internal and external initiatives that Hamyang-gun public officials and residents can feel.

First, to strengthen integrity within the public service, intensive integrity education will be conducted, and a new "Integrity Pledge" bulletin board will be established on the Hamyang-gun website along with the operation of "Integrity Pledge Day" to share the commitment and improvement tasks for integrity within the public service.

Additionally, internal control systems will be reinforced, and penalties will be imposed on public officials involved in the five major misconducts (bribery and entertainment acceptance, embezzlement and misuse of public funds, sexual violence, sexual harassment, and drunk driving), permanently revoking opportunities for various future job training.

Along with this, to publicly promote Hamyang-gun's efforts to improve integrity and discover integrity policies that resonate with residents, advice will be sought from cities and counties with excellent integrity evaluations, and integrity postcards will be produced and distributed to enable anonymous reporting of public official misconduct.

A county official said, "Ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, we have sent integrity letters and notices for reporting public official misconduct and abuse of power to local businesses, demonstrating our determination to improve integrity and beginning a new journey to be reborn as a clean Hamyang."

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