Naju-si, Top Institution in Jeollanam-do Anti-Corruption Policy Evaluation

Published 14 Dec.2023 13:47(KST)

Jeonnam Naju City announced on the 14th that it was selected as the best institution, ranking first among 22 cities and counties in the 2023 City and County Anti-Corruption Policy Evaluation.

Through being selected as the best institution, the city received a prize money of 10 million KRW.

This evaluation, hosted by Jeollanam-do, is a system that evaluates the efforts of each city and county in implementing anti-corruption policies and provides incentives to improve the level of integrity and spread anti-corruption values among the 22 cities and counties in the province.

Mayor Yoon Byung-tae and the employees of the Audit Office are taking a commemorative photo. [Photo by Naju City]

The selection is made by combining 13 indicators including achievements, efforts, and effectiveness in three areas: anti-corruption policy implementation, anti-corruption system, and community-wide dissemination.

The city achieved excellent results by scoring full marks in all but one of the 13 quantitative evaluation indicators.

In addition, the city has been promoting customized integrity education and programs based on the results of the Integrity Sensitivity (CBTI) diagnostic test, which assesses the integrity awareness and capabilities of all employees under its jurisdiction.

In particular, this year, the city has worked to spread an internal culture of integrity through two integrity forums sharing anti-corruption policies while touring all departments and towns, townships, and neighborhoods in the first and second half of the year; two integrity training sessions for executives and team leaders from April to May; anti-corruption integrity training for all employees in September; and training for new public officials in December.

Furthermore, the city enhanced administrative fairness and transparency by operating a Happy Call system (52 sessions, about 1,500 people) that collects administrative improvement suggestions through integrity surveys targeting civil petitioners, and by running the Integrity Citizen Auditor system, which detects corruption factors from an independent external perspective and recommends improvements.

Mayor Yoon Byung-tae met with the audit office staff on the day to encourage their efforts in promoting and spreading anti-corruption policies.

Mayor Yoon said, “Being selected as the best institution in the province is the result of all employees, along with the audit office, making integrity the fundamental value in performing public duties and doing their best to practice it,” and added, “We will continue to strive to spread a culture of integrity that all public officials and citizens can empathize with by implementing diverse and effective integrity policies.”