"Actions Speak Louder Than Words" Korea Rail Network Authority Holds On-Site Focused 'Responsible Management' Proclamation Ceremony

The Korea Rail Network Authority announced on the 23rd that Lee Seong-hae, Chairman of the Rail Network Authority, and all executives and employees attended a proclamation ceremony at the Daejeon headquarters, pledging field-centered responsible management.

At the proclamation ceremony, Chairman Lee Seong-hae gave a lecture on the background of the Rail Network Authority's transition to a field-centered project management (PM) system and the future direction to be pursued through this change.

Seonghae Lee, President of the Korea Rail Network Authority (fifth from the left), is taking a commemorative photo with executives and employees while shouting "Fighting" after the "Field-Centered Responsible Management Proclamation Ceremony" on the 16th.

Earlier, on the 16th, the Rail Network Authority carried out an organizational restructuring focused on the field. The restructuring emphasized ▲transition to a field-centered project management (PM) system ▲establishment of dedicated organizations for national agenda tasks such as the Metropolitan Area Express Railway (GTX) support team and railway undergrounding ▲granting the Safety Headquarters the ‘authority to halt construction’ to prevent major accidents ▲creation and streamlining of departments to support field operations.

Following the keynote lecture, Chairman Lee Seong-hae signed ‘Project Charter’ contracts with six representative project leaders who will carry out field-centered project management, aiming for 100% project cost progress. This is the first time since the founding of the Rail Network Authority that the chairman and project leaders have signed such contracts.

In particular, the Rail Network Authority implemented innovative personnel measures to cultivate project management professionals by recruiting and appointing 15 deputy-level employees to project leader positions, which had previously been appointed only to department head or division head levels, during the recent organizational restructuring.

This means that the Authority has put into practice organizational restructuring and personnel changes before merely talking about field-centered responsible management.

Chairman Lee Seong-hae stated, “By implementing field-centered project management, we will focus our capabilities to ensure that 10 projects scheduled to open this year, including the GTX stations awaited by the public and the Paju Unjeong?Seoul Station section, are completed successfully and on time. The Rail Network Authority has set ‘public happiness and customer value’ as the ultimate goal of field-centered responsible management and will strive to become a public institution that meets the expectations of the people.”