ACRC Shared Current Status and Improvement Measures of Whistleblower Protection System of Korea with International Community

- On the 29th, at G20 ACWG Meeting,
the ACRC delivered presentation on Whistleblower Protection System -

(29th Mar. 2022, ACRC)

2022 G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group (ACWG)

At G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group (ACWG) Meeting organized to promote anti-corruption coalition, Korea’s whistleblower protection system and its way forward were shared with G20 countries.

The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC, Chairperson Jeon Hyun-Heui) introduced whistleblower protection system of Korea at the first meeting of the G20 ACWG 2022 on March 29.

G20 ACWG Meeting has been held every year since 2010. This year’s meeting was attended by representatives of G20 member countries such as Indonesia, the President of the G20, and Australia, as well as international organizations such as the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

At the meeting, the ACRC delegation delivered a presentation on Korea’s whistleblower protection and compensation system. The presentation described that reporting an act of bribing a foreign public official was construed as reporting an act detrimental to public interest and therefore was qualified for whistleblower protection. The presentation then explained current status and improvement measures of Korea’s whistleblower protection and compensation system.

The first G20 ACWG Meeting 2022 was held through video conference from March 28 to 31. The meeting shared anti-corruption policies and best practices of member countries and discussed the issues of drafting G20 Ant-Corruption Accountability Report 2022 and establishing principles on anti-corruption. Following the first meeting, two more ACWG meeting will be held in 2022.

ACRC Assistant Chairperson for Planning and Coordination Lim Yoon-Ju said, “Korea has been consistently complementing its whistleblower protection system to protect whistleblowers as emphasized by the international community. Through the ACWG Meeting, we would actively share anti-corruption systems of Korea to the international community and engage in mutual cooperation on anti-corruption with countries around the world.”