Gyeonggi Province Public Institution Integrity Evaluation, Overall Score 8.76... Slight Increase from Previous Year

[Suwon Ilbo=Park No-hun Reporter] Gyeonggi Province conducted the '2021 Gyeonggi Province Public Institution Integrity Evaluation' for 29 public institutions under its jurisdiction. The results showed that the overall integrity score was 8.76 points (out of 10), up 0.26 points from 8.50 points in 2020.

According to the province on the 6th, it introduced its own integrity survey for subsidiary public institutions in 2015, becoming the first nationwide to do so, and has been conducting annual evaluations since then. The evaluation categories consist of three areas: 'External Integrity' evaluated by residents who have experienced administrative services, 'Internal Integrity' evaluated by internal staff, and 'Anti-Corruption Initiative Evaluation' assessing each institution's anti-corruption efforts.

In 2021, the evaluation was conducted by dividing institutions into four groups: ▲Group 1 institutions with 50 or more current staff ▲Group 2 institutions with fewer than 50 current staff ▲Group 3 institutions subject to evaluation by the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission ▲Group 4 other institutions, with ratings assigned from Grade 1 (highest) to Grade 5 (lowest).

During the overall integrity evaluation, Group 3 adopted the evaluation results from the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (Gyeonggi Housing and Urban Development Corporation Grade 3, Gyeonggi Medical Center evaluation not conducted), and Group 4 institutions with fewer than 10 current staff or established within the past year were excluded.

In the overall institutional integrity evaluation results, External Integrity scored 9.34 points, down 0.08 points from the previous year, while Internal Integrity scored 7.64 points, down 0.17 points from the previous year. In contrast, the Anti-Corruption Initiative Evaluation scored 9.12 points, up 0.77 points from the previous year. The overall integrity score, reflecting two deduction factors—the occurrence of corruption incidents and actions that undermine trust—in the three evaluation categories, is 8.76 points.

Regarding results by institution, there were no Grade 1 institutions receiving an overall integrity score of 9.45 points or higher (based on Group 1 criteria) in 2021, continuing from 2020. Grade 2 institutions include ▲Group 1 Gyeonggi Tourism Organization, Gyeonggi Technopark, Gyeonggi Economic Science Promotion Foundation, Korea Ceramics Foundation, Gyeonggi Job Creation Foundation ▲Group 2 Gyeonggi Agriculture and Fisheries Promotion Agency, Gyeonggi Suwon World Cup Stadium Management Foundation, Gyeonggi Women and Family Foundation, Next-Generation Convergence Technology Research Institute. While remaining institutions received Grades 3 to 4, Gyeonggi Art Center and Gyeonggi Dajin Technopark received Grade 5.

Additionally, the Group 4 five institutions (Gyeonggi Volunteer Center, Gyeonggi Transportation Training Institute, DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Gyeonggi Social Service Agency, Korea Gyeonggi-do Corporation), which were evaluated on their anti-corruption capacity including institutionalization of internal corruption control mechanisms and corruption impact assessments, recorded 7.07 points, up 0.94 points from the previous year.

Meanwhile, in the External and Internal Integrity Evaluation surveys, 5,210 residents and 1,548 institutional staff members participated. Both external and internal surveys have a 95% confidence level with a margin of error of ±0.03%p.