Last year, a large number of the 854 public institutions failed to meet the legal mandatory purchase ratio for small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) products. Oh Se-hui, a Democratic Party of Korea lawmaker on the National Assembly's Comm…
It was revealed that the Public Procurement Service purchased five drones for administrative property survey purposes at a cost of 225 million won and left them unused for a long period before disposing of them. Ahn Do-geol, a Democratic Pa…
The Public Procurement Service announced on the 23rd that it will hold the '2024 Public Procurement Field Difficulty Regulation Discovery Contest' to identify and resolve regulatory improvement tasks from the perspective of citizens and com…
Amid recent rapid climate change causing unexpected weather events such as heatwaves, tropical nights, and localized heavy rain, errors in automatic weather observation equipment that produce fundamental data for forecasts and disaster miti…
The Public Procurement Service's stockpile program, which stockpiles six non-ferrous metals to stabilize supply chains, has failed to meet its target inventory for four consecutive years since 2020. According to the 'Stockpile Inventory Sta…
The National Tax Service receives about 20,000 tax evasion tips each year, but it has been found that roughly 40% are not processed on time and are carried over to the next year. Jung Il-yeong, a lawmaker on the National Assembly's Committe…
The Korea Fair Trade Commission and the Korea Consumer Agency said on the 19th that they have increased the budget for consumer damage relief and dispute mediation by 450 million won to address the delayed settlement of sales proceeds at TM…
▲Ko Du-yeong (CEO of Lotte Innovate) passed away. Death at 1 p.m. on the 10th. Room 30, 3rd floor, annex of Asan Medical Center, Songpa-gu, Seoul. Funeral procession on the 12th. Burial site: Yongin Peace Forest, Cheoin-gu, Yongin, Gyeonggi…
Last year, cyber fraud damage reached 1.8111 trillion won, a sharp increase of 645.8 billion won compared to 2022. According to data submitted by the National Police Agency to Rep. Han Byeong-do of the National Assembly's Public Administrat…
The Fair Trade Commission announced on the 5th that measures including a reduction in brokerage fees for small business owners were announced at the 'Accommodation Platform Self-Regulation Plan Presentation' held at the Grand Ballroom on th…
The government has begun the process of transferring the existing National Security Research Institute to the National Security Technology Research Institute. The management authority will also be unified under the National Intelligence Ser…
The Public Procurement Service (Commissioner Lim Gi-geun) recently announced that it will announce competitive bidding for a total of 188 large projects worth 3.1282 trillion won (goods and services worth 1 billion won or more, construction…
◆Director-level appointments ▲Security Technology Division Director Park Hae-ryong ◆Team leader-level appointments ▲Voice Phishing Response Team Leader Seok Ji-hui ▲Security Education Operations Team Leader Ahn Ye-na
Seoul recently announced plans to actively utilize "Internet of Things (IoT) technology" to care for and protect the safety of socially vulnerable groups, including the elderly, women, people with disabilities, and children. The city plans …
The Korea Democracy Foundation was found to have given grants to recipients without checking whether they were already receiving support from other institutions. The foundation also did not conduct any follow-up checks on duplicate support …
