Hello & welcome!
Transparency International Korea (TI-K) is a non-governmental organisation which aims ‘to make a world in which the government, politics, business, civil society, and our daily lives free from corruption’. Our values are ‘transparency, accountability, solidarity, courage, justice, and democracy’.
TI-K set out as a solidarity network of around 800 NGOs involved in 24th August 1999 under the name of ‘반부패국민연대’. Later, the organisation was approved by Transparency International (TI), an international anti-corruption organisation, headquarter based in Berlin and became its national chapter.
Corruption is a serious problem in the world. But, especially in South Korea, taking in thought how fast the political democratization and its economic growth were made only over a decade, problems are left unsolved, and there is still a long way to go.
Hopefully, many attempts are being made to defeat corruption recently, and it is widely known that are three ways to approach, regarding 1) expose and punishment, 2) policies and legal system, and 3) public perception.
However, as is shown from the past experience of Northern European countries, with better transparency, it is clear that we must embrace all three methods. Corruption cannot be defeated by an effort of a government alone, but government-business-civil society must work together.
For 20 years, TI-K has worked hard to improve transparency in the country based on the experience of and the lessons learned from taking place in the international anti-corruption movement. This has subsequently made TI-K to, first, address an action plan to each sector of the society whilst, second, encouraging them to participate in collaboration activities to endorse those plans, instead of focusing on activities like investigating, exposing, and accusing individual matters.
Your feedback/suggestion/request/inquiry/or any provided resources (related to our organization) are all exceptionally valuable to TI-K. Your participation will vastly contribute to making our society more transparent and just.
TI-K is a non-profit and non-governmental organisation which is funded by membership fees and various types of donations. With the effort of the secretariat, the members’ active participation will make the organisation come alive. TI-K always look forward to having people who can share thoughts and participate as our member. Lastly, all donations will be used to help our society to be more transparent and just. Thank you.
Transparency International Korea, Co-chairpersons
Sung-Goo Kang, Sang-Hak Lee, Toe Hyu
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