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The Administrative Appeal Celebrates the 40th Anniversary of its Journey with the People

- ACRC celebrated the 40th anniversary of administrative appeal at the Korea Press Center on Sep. 12

- Held academic discussions on major issues with regards to the administrative appeal

(12, September. 2025, ACRC)

The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC, Chairperson Ryu Chul Whan) held an event to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the administrative appeal at the Korea Press Center, International Conference Hall on Sep 12th, along with the Korean Public Law Association (Chairman Jeon Hak Seon) and the Korean Administrative Law Association (Chairman Kim Kwang Soo).

The event was to congratulate the 40 years of history of administrative appeal, as well as to discuss its achievements and the future.

Since the Administrative Appeals Act was enforced in 1985, administrative appeal has become a representative method to protect rights and interests of people when they face unlawful or unfair administrative measures, as it has simple procedure with no financial burden compared to the administrative litigation.

The past decade was especially a period for the administrative appeal to morph into a more practical protective method of rights and interests for the people. The court-appointed defense counsels system was introduced to strengthen legal services for those who are financially marginalized, the indirect compulsion strengthened the implementation power of the ruling, and the newly-introduced mediation system enabled reasonable dispute resolution through agreement between the parties.

The respective administrative appeals system for each of the specialized administrative appeals organizations were integrated into one-stop administrative appeals service this June, removing the need for the public to search for administrative appeal agencies and enabling the entire process from filing to ruling through single system.

This event invited academia and professionals from administrative appeals to discuss major issues in administrative appeals, such as ▴ Relations between the central, city, and provincial administrative appeals commissions and municipality, ▴ Definition and criteria of unlawful and unfair in the administrative appeals and active protection of rights and interests, ▴ Introduction of party appeals and the preventive ban appeals in the administrative appeals, and ▴ Fine-tuning process to strengthen rights and interests protection in the administrative appeals.

Chairperson Ryu of the ACRC said, “The administrative appeal is a system that enable rights and interests relief of everyone in simple and easy way. I hope this 40th anniversary and relevant event to serve as an opportunity to prepare a leap forward for the next 40 years of the administrative appeal.”