¡áThe Korea gas Safety Corporation New leap into anti-corruption and ethical management
The Korea gas Safety Corporation (CEO Kim Hyung-keun) announced on Mar. 8, 2018 that it pledged for anti-corruption
and ethical management to restore public confidence by participating in the "Fair Player Club Anti-Corruption Ceremony",
which was held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Seoul on Mar 7, 2018.
The Fair Player Club is a public-private partnership forum that manages corporate risks and strengthens anti-corruption
capabilities by providing field-based compliance and ethical management education, research study, awareness
promotion, and anti-corruption self-diagnosis tools.
Many representatives of governments including Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy and Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights
Commission, public institutions, and corporations attended the pledge ceremony, hosted by UN Global Compact Network
Korea and organized by Global Competitiveness Empowerment Forum. UN Global Compact is a specialized organization
under UN that encourages companies to join in the sustainable and balanced development through cooperation between
UN and companies and to improve international social ethics and environment.
"Setting up an anti-corruption business culture is a pre-requisite for sustainable development of a company" said
Hyung-Keun Kim, CEO of the company the Korea gas Safety Corporation. "We will be re-born as a clean and transparent
public institution by strengthening integrity restoration activities by pledging for fair play."
In order to recover the trust that crashed in the past year due to its recruitment corruption, the Korea gas Safety
Corporation (KGS) strives has been endeavoring to establish a culture of anti-corruption by holding the KGS Ethics and
Integrity Festival with its employees and publish a sustainability report which acquired the highest level (AAA) of
Sustainability Management Achievement for 10 years since 2009.
¡á Korea East-West Power Co., Ltd. 'anti-corruption pledge'
Korea East-West Power Co., Ltd. (President Park, Il-joon) participated in the "2018 Fair Player Club Summit and Fair Play
Pledge Ceremony" hosted by UN Global Compact Network Korea (GCNK) and sponsored by the Ministry of Trade,
Industry and Energy and the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission at the Grand Hyatt Seoul Hotel on Friday,
March 7, 2018.
UN Global Compact is the world's largest voluntary international convention that provides practical measures to enable
companies to incorporate the 10 major principles in the fields of human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption
into corporate operations and management strategies.
At this ceremony, Korea East-West Power Co., Ltd. pledged for "Fair Play Principles" to nurture integrity business culture
and fair business activities together with representatives and executives of various corporations and institutions that
pledged compliance and ethics management.
Fair Player Club is a public-private partnership project to promote anti-corruption, aiming to establish a fair and clean
market environment and collective action between business and governments. The ceremony was its Summit and Fair
Play Pledge Ceremony.
A senior official from Korea East-West Power Co., Ltd. said "Ethics and fair management are the basis and the
foundation for creating a righteous corporate culture. Through participation in this event, we will try to do our best
further to strengthen ethical awareness of all of our employees and continue to make our company a transparent public
corporation that fulfills its social responsibilities."
¡á Korea Midland Power Co., Ltd. (KOMIPO) participated in the 2018 Fair Player Club Summit and Fair Play
Pledge Ceremony
Korea Midland Power Co., Ltd. (KOMIPO) participated in the 2018 Fair Player Club Summit and Fair Play Pledge
Ceremony hosted by UN Global Compact Network Korea (GCNK) at Grand Hyatt Seoul Hotel on Friday, March 7, 2018.
Fair Player Club is a public-private collaboration forum for compliance and ethics management, sponsored by the Ministry
of Trade, Industry and Energy, the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission, the Ministry of Public Administration and
Security, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, promoting an anti-corruption culture in the South Korean society and
compliance and ethics management in business operation.
The event was attended by the representatives from various companies and consisted of the sessions about
anti-corruption global trends and anti-corruption risk management measures with domestic and international experts.
There was a pledge ceremony for ethical management and learned about Fair Player Club activities during the past three
years.
This is the second time for KOMIPO to participate in the Fair Player Club’s anti-corruption declaration ceremony after
February 2017.
Hyung-koo Park, CEO of KOMIPO, said, "KOMIPO has been recognized as the highest level of integrity in the public
sector by being selected as the best organization in the integrity evaluation of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission
for two consecutive years." With the participation of the pledge ceremony, we will try to our best to become a company
that could lead anti-corruption management culture in Republic of Korea.”
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