Convention to Follow Written Pledges for Integrity and Renovation on March 8

All employees of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC) held "the Convention to Follow Written Pledges for Integrity and Renovation" in the Grand Lecture Hall of the Korean National Police Agency on March 8 by putting individual articles of integrity in time capsules.

The ACRC, which has declared the 2010 as the first year to "Make a Country of Integrity" has been implementing a variety of campaigns to make the Republic of Korea an advanced country of integrity. The event was part of efforts to lay the foundation for the environment where corrupt public officials with even minor irregularities are punished and can not work within the government by encouraging employees of the ACRC to write and practice a pledge of anti-corruption and integrity.

Employees of the ACRC has written individual pledges including principles in life for clean public services for the year and put them in time capsules that are specially designed, and will open them at the end of the year and have a chance to evaluate performance about integrity for the year.

Chairman Lee Jae Oh said in the convention "I hope employees of the ACRC pledging integrity would provide the opportunity to spread the culture of integrity and renovation among public officials throughout the bureaucratic society."

The ACRC will display time capsules that contain employees' written pledges in the Consultation Center, located in the first floor of the office building of the commission at Migundong, Seodaemungu, to make their commitment to principles of integrity and renovation known to the general public.