Ministry of the Interior and Safety Restructures Organization with Reduction of 1 Bureau and 2 Divisions, Establishment of Digital Government Office

Redesigned to Focus on Yoon Suk-yeol Government's National Tasks

The Ministry of the Interior and Safety announced on the 17th the legislative notice of the 'Partial Amendment Ordinance on the Organization of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and Its Affiliated Agencies' and the 'Partial Amendment Ordinance on the Enforcement Rules of the Organization,' which include a major organizational restructuring.

The Ministry explained that this organizational restructuring plan was prepared to accelerate the achievement of the Yoon Seok-yeol administration's national agenda and to actively respond to the changed climate environment, such as extreme rainfall in July, to strengthen public safety. It is scheduled to be finalized after legislative notice, vice ministerial meetings, and Cabinet meetings, and fully implemented by the end of August.

The main features and contents of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety's organizational restructuring plan are as follows. First, the organization will be slimmed down by reducing one bureau and two divisions. However, organizations related to disaster safety management concerning public safety will maintain their current scale without reduction.

The Disaster Safety Management Headquarters will be reorganized at a rebirth level. The current system, composed of the Safety Policy Office, Disaster Management Office, and Disaster Cooperation Office, will be reorganized into the Safety Prevention Policy Office, Natural Disaster Office, Social Disaster Office, and Disaster Recovery Support Bureau, aligned with the actual disaster work process of prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery, significantly strengthening policy functions by sector. In particular, the Disaster Recovery Support Bureau will be established as a separate bureau, and in addition to the existing Recovery Support Division, a Recovery Management Division will be newly created to enhance disaster recovery capabilities such as conflict management.

Finally, the Ministry will reorganize the work promotion system for the Digital Platform Government, the era of local autonomy, and government reform. To accelerate the realization of the Digital Platform Government, the 'Digital Government Bureau' will be expanded and reorganized into the 'Digital Government Office.' A new 'Vice Minister' position (Deputy Director of the Local Autonomy Balanced Development Office) will be established to take charge of tasks related to the era of local autonomy. An 'Innovation Organization Bureau' will be newly established to handle government reform and organizational management, aiming to increase synergy in work promotion.

Minister of the Interior and Safety Lee Sang-min stated, “Through this organizational restructuring, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety will be reborn at a relaunch level,” and added, “We will promptly carry out follow-up personnel appointments according to the restructuring and devote ourselves to promoting key national agendas such as the era of local autonomy and the Digital Platform Government, as well as strengthening public safety.”

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