[2023 National Audit] 87% of Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy Affiliated Organizations Have Zero Female Executives

Among the affiliated organizations under the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (hereinafter referred to as MOTIE), it was found that 87% have no female executives.

On the 26th, Yang Hyang-ja, a member of the National Assembly's Trade, Industry, Energy, Small and Medium Enterprises Committee and a representative of Korea's Hope, conducted a full survey of MOTIE's affiliated organizations and found that out of 41 organizations, 36 had no female executives.

Among the political appointees such as ministers and vice ministers of MOTIE, there have been no women in the past three years, and only 3 out of 50 senior public officials were women.

Additionally, among the 50 senior officials promoted in the past five years, only 3 (6%) were women; for grade 3 promotions, 7 (12%) were women, and for grade 4 promotions, 34 (20%) were women.

In the case of Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), there were no female executives in the past five years, and as of this year, the proportion of women at grade 1 was only 0.9%.

Representative Yang said, "Everyone should compete under fair opportunities, but it is true that our public service society is still excessively skewed," adding, "It is time to make efforts centered on MOTIE to establish an organizational culture and promotion system where competition occurs under fair rules."

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