Osan City Conducts Self-Evaluation of Autonomous Internal Control System

Osan City (Mayor Kwak Sang-wook) announced on the 12th that it conducted a self-evaluation on the 8th at the City Hall Mulhyang-gi Hall regarding the achievements of the "Autonomous Internal Control" system that has been in operation since last August, and proceeded with deliberations by the working committee on the evaluation.

The city established an Autonomous Internal Control Committee chaired by the Vice Mayor and organized the Clean Governance-e Working Committee with team-level officials from relevant departments, as well as a Self-Diagnosis Working Committee and a Public Official Ethics Management Working Committee, distributing and implementing management, evaluation, promotion, and education tasks in the autonomous internal control business sector.

During the working committee meeting on this day, each system (Clean Governance-e continuous monitoring, self-diagnosis, and public official ethics management) underwent intensive discussions on what worked well and what fell short in operations.

As a result of the working committee meeting, improvement measures were to be developed for the issues identified on this day and proposed to central government ministries and Gyeonggi Province, while the city committed to actively improving and supplementing the system going forward to ensure the effectiveness of the autonomous internal control system.

The self-evaluation results indicated that due to the short period of system operation, objective evaluation was difficult, and problems were found in ambiguous evaluation standards for each system and equity between departments. However, it was assessed as meaningful in that it created an opportunity for civil servants to secure the legality and transparency of administration through self-inspection of their work processes.

A city official stated, "By improving the problems that emerged this time, starting next year we will provide incentives to outstanding employees and departments based on the self-evaluation, and we will accelerate efforts to ensure the early establishment of the autonomous internal control system," the official said.