Chungnam Province Development 'Business Travel Expense Easy Calculation Service' Receives Positive Response

[Asia Economy (Hongseong) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] The ‘Business Trip Expense Simple Calculation Service’ developed and operated by Chungnam Province is gaining positive responses.

According to the province on the 4th, this service is provided to central government ministries, local governments, and public institutions nationwide. The core of the simple calculation service is to significantly reduce the workload by condensing multiple supporting documents required for business trip expense payments into a single document.

Unlike before, when multiple supporting documents such as express and intercity bus fare tables, railway fare tables, business trip distance proof documents, and fuel expense proof documents for the trip day were required, this service automatically calculates the business trip expenses, allowing all proof to be resolved with just one sheet.

The service is implemented by linking application programming interfaces (APIs) such as train and express/intercity bus fare information from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Kakao Navi, and fuel price information from Korea National Oil Corporation’s OPINET.

Due to these advantages, the number of service users is rapidly increasing. For example, the province estimates high user satisfaction based on the fact that as of the 2nd, the number of service uses reached 15,998 in just over a month since the service started.

In particular, the simple calculation service ranked second among popular recommended knowledge in the On-Nara electronic document approval system used by public officials nationwide.

Nam Seong-yeon, the province’s Data Policy Officer, said, “The province plans to further focus on improving work procedures by linking and utilizing data. We will continue to discover and promote services that reduce unnecessary workload for public officials and enhance administrative efficiency.”

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