UNGC Network Korea Workshop 2014 A workshop by UNGC Network in Korea was held on October 15, 2014 from 1:30 to 6pm at Seoul Global Center in Seoul. In this half-day affair, the ambassador of the UK opened it with his encouraging remarks and pointed out the necessity and strongRead More →
The Transparency in Corporate Reporting report looks at exactly what you can find in answer to those questions if you visit the websites of the world’s 124 largest publicly traded companies. Some of these companies, from 25 countries and worth US$14 trillion, make a lot of information about their operationsRead More →
Fifteen years after the Convention entered into force, there are still 22 countries with Little or No Enforcement and eight countries with only Limited Enforcement. As a result, the Convention’s fundamental goal of creating a corruption-free level playing field for global trade is still far from being achieved. The ConventionRead More →
José Ugaz was today elected chair of the board of Transparency International, the global anti-corruption organisation present in more than 100 countries. Ugaz, the Peruvian lawyer with a history of taking on grand corruption, was elected by Transparency International’s annual membership meeting, which brings together the movement’s national chapters andRead More →
Independent anti-corruption commission By Kim Geo-sung In the 2013 Corruption Perceptions Index released by Transparency International on Dec. 3, Korea sits in 46th place out of 177 countries, with a score of 55 out of 100. Compared to last year, Korea’s score has dropped one point, and its place hasRead More →
The anniversary of ‘Donghak Revolution’ By Choe Chong-dae 2014 marks the 120th anniversary of the Donghak Peasant Revolution. Accordingly, a variety of celebrations have been planned by the Commemoration Foundation of the Donghak Peasant Revolution, an association of family members of those who died during the uprising, as well asRead More →
Korea is making steady strides toward stamping out corruption across government agencies and institutions, but public perception on the matter has been on a slow decline. In its most recent annual review, Transparency International dropped Korea one notch in its global rankings for relative degree of perceived corruption. Korea hadRead More →