Paju City Achieves Top-Tier Rankings in National Integrity Assessment of Public Institutions

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Seo Dong-young] Paju City announced on the 14th that it achieved an overall integrity rating of Grade 2, up one grade from 2019, in the "2020 Public Institution Integrity Assessment Results" conducted by the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission targeting 580 public institutions nationwide.

In this year's comprehensive integrity assessment of cities nationwide, as there were no Grade 1 ratings for municipal-level governments across the country in 2020, achieving Grade 2 represents effectively entering the top tier of integrity ratings.

The integrity assessment was conducted by comprehensively evaluating external integrity scores (75%) assessed by citizens with experience in public institution operations, internal integrity scores (25%) self-assessed by public servants, and information on corruption incidents.

The city selected and pursued 25 projects to foster an ethical organizational culture. Additionally, it has been making continuous efforts to improve the integrity environment by conducting external integrity surveys and integrity dialogue sessions targeting all civil service ranks.

A city official stated, "2021 is a pivotal year marking just two years since our city reached a population of over 500,000, becoming a major city," and added, "We will strengthen new and existing initiatives, including integrity pledges from senior civil servants, to strive toward achieving Grade 1 integrity ratings."