Raising the Meal Expense Limit to 50,000 Won for Public Officials Entertained by Work-Related Parties? Is the government setting the stage for condoning corruption? – Position of Korea Transparency International on the Increase in the Meal Expense Limit Under the Improper Solicitation and Graft Act – On July 31, theRead More →
Transparent Society Award The awardees 2015 Kim Nam-kyun (Journalist of Chungcheong Review) Kim Nam-gyun discovered and reported a corruption scandal at Chungcheong Provincial Education Office. He proved the facts and alarmed the public. Due to his coverage, the local government found out about billions of KRW of wasted taxes. BaeRead More →
Transparency International Korea Chapter and Korea Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education established an MoU, an agreement made to help the office improve its integrity and further promote its public service. The said event was held on November 12, 2014 and was signed at Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, Seoul. TheRead More →
Youth Integrity Survey Results With the support from Transparency International-Secretariat (Berlin, Germany), TI-Korea (South) conducted the Youth Integrity Survey (YIS) between July and October 2012. Through the survey, TI-Korea found following key results: Young people in Korea are more likely to forgo values of integrity in the pursuit of wealthRead More →