‘Fair Player Club Summit’ was held with participation of representatives from 7 metropolitan cities including Seoul Metropolitan Government, local chambers of commerce & industry, and companies on Friday, February 24, 2017, at Lotte Hotel, in Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Fair Player Club, a public-private sector platform to promote collective action for anti-corruption activities, is hosted by Global Compact Network Korea and organized by Global Competitiveness Empowerment Forum, and supported by the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MOTIE), Ministry of Interior (MOI), and Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission (ACRC). In this summit, representatives from companies and organizations take a pledge of ‘Fair Play Principle’ to create clean corporate culture and to run business complying with the law and codes of conduct. Also, major outcomes in the Cycle 2 of Fair Player Club were introduced during the summit.
Fair Player Club is one of the 24 global anti-corruption projects which aim to spur collective action in business and government to create fair and transparent market conditions with the support from the World Bank and Siemens Integrity Initiative. Since 2015, Fair Player Club has increased its efforts to spread a transparent and ethical corporate culture by taking incremental steps in three years, such as, seminar, research, and raising awareness activities to focus on anti-corruption by industry (Cycle 1), region (Cycle 2), and country (Cycle 3).
Since 2015, 122 companies and organizations have participated in ‘Fair Play Pledge for anti-corruption’, while 70 newly joined in 2016 and 2017.
During the summit, OH, Kyun, 1st Vice Minister, Office for Government Policy Coordination of Prime Minister’s Secretariat / Chief of Pan Governmental Anti- corruption Bureau, PARK Won-soon, Mayor of Seoul Metropolitan Government, KIM Jong-kap, Chairman & CEO of Siemens Korea, and Iohann LE FRAPPER, Vice Chair of the International Chamber of Commerce on Corporate Responsibility & Anti-corruption delivered their congratulatory speeches on spreading the Anti-corruption in management culture. Also, PARK Gyeong-ho, Vice Chair of Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission and Iftekhar ZAMAN, Executive Director of Transparency International Bangladesh gave special lectures.
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