Busan Office of Education Receives Second Grade for Two Consecutive Years in Comprehensive Integrity Evaluation

Achieved an Outstanding Score of 93.6 in Integrity Efforts, Significantly Above the National Average

Anti-Corruption and Integrity Policies Focused on Four Major Strategies Yield Positive Results

Busan Metropolitan Office of Education achieved a comprehensive integrity rating of Grade 2 for the second consecutive year in the '2024 Public Institution Comprehensive Integrity Evaluation' announced by the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission.

The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission evaluates and announces the integrity levels and corruption factors of public institutions nationwide every year. The evaluation combines 'Integrity Perception,' based on surveys of civil petitioners and employees, 'Integrity Effort,' which assesses anti-corruption efforts, and 'Corruption Status,' reflecting the occurrence of corruption incidents within institutions, to rate institutions from Grade 1 to Grade 5.

In this year's evaluation, the Busan Office of Education scored an outstanding 93.6 points in the 'Integrity Effort' category, which reflects the establishment and operation performance of the institution's anti-corruption system, significantly higher than the overall public institution average score of 83.5 points, earning a Grade 2 rating, one level higher than last year.

This is analyzed as the result of the stable establishment of the institutional foundation for realizing integrity policies that the Office of Education has been promoting.

Throughout the year, focusing on four major strategies?strengthening the integrity promotion system, enhancing corruption control systems, concentrating on improving corruption-vulnerable areas, and spreading a shared culture of integrity?the Office of Education appears to have effectively advanced anti-corruption and integrity policies.

The Office actively promoted integrity policies based on a communication-centered promotion system involving various participants such as the 'Integrity Promotion Planning Team,' a comprehensive platform for anti-corruption policies chaired by the head of the institution, the 'MZ Generation Integrity Council,' and 'Integrity Citizen Auditors.'

Additionally, internal controls were strengthened through enhanced audit capabilities, and efforts were made to periodically diagnose corruption factors to block potential corruption occurrences. They established corruption control systems including preventive audits in corruption-vulnerable areas, autonomous inspection systems such as self-integrity diagnosis and evaluation, activation of corruption whistleblowing by public officials, and expanded operation of external citizen auditors.

This year, the focus on improving corruption-vulnerable areas expanded from the public sector to the private education sector. Tailored improvement measures were prepared to eliminate blind spots in public finance leakage, including special audits on local subsidy execution, revision of subsidy accounting execution standards, and development of automated accounting programs.

Alongside this, various integrity practice activities were carried out voluntarily by future generations such as MZ generation teachers and students.

Efforts were made to share and spread the value of integrity in daily life through new attempts such as integrity campaigns, operation of integrity SNS channels, hosting 'Integrity Culture Day' planned directly by future generations, and opening the student integrity experience classroom 'Open! Integrity School.'

Kim Dong-hyun, Auditor of the Busan Metropolitan Office of Education, said, “Maintaining a comprehensive integrity rating of Grade 2 for two consecutive years is the result of all employees working together to spread an anti-corruption integrity culture,” and added, “The Office of Education will strive even harder to become the most integrity-driven institution by promoting work that realizes the values of responsibility, fairness, and transparency.”