ACRC won Gold Awards, Best Awards, in the Year of Government in 2020 International Business Awards

- Other countries should take lessons from Anti-Corruption Training Institute of Korea -

September 23, 2020

Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission

The Republic of Korea
 

The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC, Chairperson Jeon Hyun- Heui) won Gold Stevie Awards, the best award in the category of Organization of the Year-Non-Profit or Government Organizations in the 2020 International Business Awards (IBA)

Celebrating 17th anniversary this year, the IBA, operated by US Stevie Award, gives awards to public and private organizations in the world for the efforts and achievement they made in the previous year.

This year, about 3,800 entities from some 60 countries were competed in the 13 categories, such as management, PR campaign, HR resources, customer services, and IT. About 250 professionals around the world participated in judging nomination to the 2020 IBA.

The awards ceremony was initially scheduled to be held in the late October in Paris, France. But due to COVID 19, it will be held online in the early December (asia.stevieawards.com)

The ACRC submitted in the category of Organization of the Year various training programs and achievements of the Anti-Corruption Training Institute (ACTI), the only institute dedicated to anti-corruption and integrity training in Korea.

Judges highly recognized ACTI programs’ potential for high growth in the world as they cover not just public officials but also ordinary citizens including teenagers and adults, as well as foreigners.

ACTI’s diversified approaches which include using concerts and cable TV programs not just general lectures also received positive comments.

The judges especially praised ACTI’s integrity trainings aired on cable TV or International Protocol Television (IPTV) and real-time education online delivered via virtual education platform, in response to COVID 19.

They gave applauds to the ACTI with compliments such as “an innovative approach to dealing with corruption”, “Every civil society should have one like this”, and “I do hope this can thrive and serve as a blueprint for other nations”

In July this year, the ACRC won Gold Stevie Awards in Excellence in Government Innovation in the 2020 Asia-Pacific Awards. In August, the OECD said in its Economic Review of Korea that corruption of low-level public officials has been almost eradicated, in particular thanks to the ACRC. As such, ACRC is gaining a series of positive comments in the international community.

Chairperson Jeon Hyun-Heui said, “Wining Gold Stevie Awards in IBA holds a great significance, in that the international community acknowledged the ACRC’s efforts to not just improve laws and regulations but also to spread integrity culture in day to day lives.”

Will aggressively innovate its work to meet citizens’ expectations for a nation of integrity and will continue to communicate with citizens with one step closer to them.”