From Police Officer to Commissioner in as Fast as 11 Years... Korea Coast Guard Agency Revamps Personnel System Focused on Performance

The Korea Coast Guard is reforming its personnel system to focus on performance and achievements, including reducing the minimum service period required for promotion by rank. On the 1st, the Korea Coast Guard announced the legislative notice of partial amendments to the 'Regulations on the Appointment of Police Officers Affiliated with the Korea Coast Guard' and its enforcement rules.

The amendment reduces the proportion of career evaluation, which has favored long-term employees in promotions, and adjusts the ratio between promotion by review and promotion by examination by rank, allowing high performers to be promoted more quickly.

Currently, during promotion by review, work evaluation accounts for 65% and career evaluation 35%, but under the amendment, the ratio will change to 70% work evaluation and 30% career evaluation. The promotion method ratio of 60% review and 40% examination will also be adjusted to 70% review and 30% examination, increasing the number of promotions by review.

Additionally, the minimum service period required for promotion by rank will be reduced to enable faster promotion for high performers. Previously, it took at least 16 years to be promoted from Police Officer to Senior Superintendent (equivalent to Headquarters Director or Regional Coast Guard Chief), but this will be shortened to 11 years.

To enhance the fairness of promotion by review, the Korea Coast Guard plans to revise the performance evaluation system by the end of the year and establish a competency evaluation system based on peer evaluation to ensure objectivity. After the legislative notice period ends next month, the amendment will undergo review by the Ministry of Government Legislation, approval by the Deputy Prime Minister and the Cabinet, and is expected to be promulgated around October.

Kim Jong-wook, Commissioner of the Korea Coast Guard, said, "This personnel system improvement reflects the government's national agenda to create a public service society based on fairness and responsibility," adding, "Stability and reform will harmonize within the public service."

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