Fair Player Club was established in May, 2015 to strengthen Korean companies’ compliance and business ethics capacity and create transparent business and market environment. It has achieved three goals that collaboration building, capacity building, and collective action.
Fair Player Club, which led the collaboration between government and private sector, has worked together with 7 industry associations, including International Contractors Association of Korea (ICAK), Korea Association of Machinery Industry (KOAMI), Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association (KAMA), Korea Electronics Association (KEA), Korea Medical Industry Association (KMDIA), Korea Railway Association (KORASS), and Korea In-house Counsel Association (KICA) in 2015, 7 municipal governments and regional chambers of commerce including Seoul Metropolitan Government, Busan Metropolitan City, Busan Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Gwangju Metropolitan City, Gwangju Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Daegue Metropolitan City, Daegue Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Ulsan Metropolitan City, Ulsan Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Daejeon Metropolitan City, Daejeon Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Incheon Metropolitan City, and Incheon Chamber of Commerce & Industry in 2016, and 7 foreign embassies and chambers of commerce including British Embassy Seoul, British Chamber of Commerce in Korea (BCCK), Embassy of Sweden in Seoul, U.S. Embassy Seoul, Korean-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KGCCI), Delegation of the EU to the Republic of Korea, European Chamber of Commerce in Korea (ECCK), China Chamber of Commerce in Korea, Korea Chamber of Commerce & Industry in China (KCCC), Business Institute for Sustainable Development of Korea (BISD), ASEAN-Korea Centre, Korea-ASEAN Forum Association (KAFA) in 2017 to host more specialized anti-corruption seminars based on each industry, region and country.
Fair Player Club has hosted 21 seminars to help companies build capacity for anti-corruption; throughout the seminars, 1,100 people have attended, 19 specialists have shared their insights, while 28 companies have shared their best practices. Compliance packages, researched and published by GCNK, were particularly well-received by the attendees. Lastly, government, civil society, international organizations, academia and business cooperated to make ‘collective action’ possible. Fair Player Club’s accomplishments have also been introduced by the press and leading conferences worldwide.
For more information, please refer to the Fair Player Club Impact Report.