Transition Team Reviews Statistics Korea Report... Discusses Plan for Developing Comprehensive Pension Statistics

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol is leaving the transition committee office set up at the Financial Supervisory Service Training Institute in Tongui-dong, Seoul, on the 28th to go out./Photo by Transition Committee Press Corps

[Asia Economy Reporter Yoo Byung-don] On the 29th, the Economic Subcommittee 1 of the Presidential Transition Committee received a business report from the Statistics Korea at the Transition Committee office in Tongui-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul.

Attending the business report were Choi Sang-mok, secretary of Economic Subcommittee 1, transition committee members Kim So-young and Shin Seong-hwan, as well as experts and working-level committee members.

The Statistics Korea and the Transition Committee discussed plans for improving and developing social and welfare statistics such as comprehensive pension statistics, measures to strengthen user-centered statistical data services, the status of national statistics coordination, and efforts to enhance statistical quality.

Statistics Korea reported on plans to establish infrastructure for sharing and utilizing statistical data to realize a digital platform government, in line with President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol's campaign pledge implementation plan.

They also mentioned plans to improve and develop social and economic statistics to respond to changes in population structure and economic environment, as well as tasks to expand statistical services to overcome crises such as COVID-19.

The transition committee members urged Statistics Korea to actively discover and promote tasks with high public impact, such as expanding the life-oriented statistical geographic information service (SGIS) that visualizes various statistical information on maps for service.

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