Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission

“Improvement Needed in Disability Employment Levy to Ensure Stress-Free Parental Leave” ACRC calls for adjustments to employer obligations regarding levy payments during disabled workers’ parental leave   (August 21, 2024, ACRC)   To ensure disa...

Sep 19,2024

Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission

“Adapting to a Challenging South Korea: Strengthening Support for North Korean Defectors” ACRC held discussions with North Korean defectors and relevant organizations at the Government Complex in Seoul on August 8. Discussions included challenges and suggestions for...

Sep 19,2024

Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission

"Prohibition of Special Employment and Additional Scores for Veterans Should be carefully examined" … Public Institutions’ Employment Regulations to be ‘Modified’ - ACRC conducts ‘employment regulation consulting’ for local public i...

Sep 19,2024

Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission

All Local Councils to be Subject to Comprehensive Integrity Assessment from This Year - ACRC to conduct a survey for the Comprehensive Integrity Assessment starting from August, including via phone, text messages, and Kakao Talk, with new indicators to assess local councils&rsqu...

Sep 19,2024

Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) announced today that Korea’s automobile exports for August 2024 reached USD 5.1 billion, logging the second highest export value for the month despite the slight decline year-on-year. The accumulated export value through Ja...

Sep 19,2024

Ministry of the Interior and Safety

For Your Safety and Convenience, Address Assigned to the 21 Sections of the 156.6km Seoul Dulle-Gil•Determination and announcement of road sections and road names for 7 Dulle-Gils spanning Seoul and Gyeonggi-do

Sep 19,2024

Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy

Deputy Minister for Energy Policy Lee Ho-hyeon attended the Roadmaps to New Nuclear 2024 conference on September 19 at the OECD Conference Center in Paris, France, where he introduced Korea’s nuclear energy policies. The conference was attended by high-level government officials ...

Sep 19,2024

Ministry of Economy and Finance

On September 19, Deputy Prime Minister Choi Sang-mok held an emergency Meeting on Macroeconomic and Financial Stability with related institutions[1] to assess the impact of the decision by the U.S.’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to cut the benchmark interest rate on domes...

Sep 19,2024

Ministry of Environment

▷ Results of safety investigation on 558 overseas direct purchase products, including household chemical products and metal accessories, releasedThe Ministry of Environment (Minister Kim Wansup) announced that from April of this year until recently, it purchased 558 products...

Sep 19,2024

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1. Korea has been elected President of the 68th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at the opening plenary held in Vienna, Austria, on September 16. Ambassador Ham Sang Wook, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the International Or...

Sep 16,2024