The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced on June 29 that it will operate 'Integrity Week' until July 3. During this period, a variety of programs will be implemented to enhance awareness of integrity within the organization.
Integrity Week is designed to help establish a culture of integrity in daily life. It will include meetings to review the implementation of integrity policies, a focused reporting period, and the establishment of an integrity practice council.
This Integrity Week aims to create a network of integrity involving both the ministry and its affiliated organizations through various checks, communications, and participation activities, thereby embedding integrity as a core value in everyday life.
The ministry plans to disseminate an integrity letter from Minister Kim Jeong-kwan to both headquarters staff and employees of affiliated organizations, and to hold a meeting of the integrity practice council. The letter will emphasize that while doing good work is important, gaining the trust of the public and businesses requires integrity above all else.
Preventive integrity activities will also be strengthened. The ministry will enhance employee participation and practical capabilities through mock corruption reporting drills and an integrity idea contest, and it plans to publish a collection of integrity case studies based on actual audit cases to prevent the recurrence of similar incidents.
Additionally, the ministry will work to foster a culture of integrity that the public can feel. It will strengthen friendly and responsible administrative services through customer satisfaction training and will operate a focused reporting period for integrity violations, adding an anonymous reporting feature to the internal reporting center. Furthermore, a survey on integrity awareness and corruption experiences will be conducted among all employees to identify potential integrity risks early.
A ministry official stated, "Integrity is not the responsibility of a specific department but a culture that all members of the organization create together. We will implement an integrity practice system involving both the ministry and its affiliated organizations to build a more trusted industrial and trade administration for the public."
* This article has been translated by AI.
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