Foreign service official candidates will be nurtured to “Global Integrity Talent” through integrity training

ACTI of the ACRC and KNDA launched a tailor-maid integrity training for foreign service official candidates for the first time

August 5, 2019

Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission

The Republic of Korea

An integrity training for foreign service officer candidates was launched for the first time.

The Anti-Corruption Training Institute of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC, Chairperson Pak Un Jong) and the Korea National Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA, Minister Kang Kyung-wha) delivered a customized integrity training for 44 foreign officer candidates on August 5, 2019 at the ACTI in Cheongju.

The tailor-made training for foreign service officer candidates was ran by the cooperation between the ACTI and the KDNA. The training provided anti-corruption knowledge necessary for foreign service officer candidates using various actual cases, with an aim to enhance their integrity capacities.

The training course included interactive sessions interesting enough to attract the trainees’ interest, most of whom were born in the 1980s and 2000s. Among them were Integrity Concert which is a cultural performance which sends integrity message, and Integrity Golden Bell Quiz which teaches the value of integrity through questions which could be solved through cooperation.

ACRC Chairperson Pak Un Jong said, “This training is meaningful in that it is ACRC’s first tailor-made integrity training for foreign service official candidates. I expect foreign service official candidates could embody integrity and serve as diplomats who could play a pivotal role in Korea’s diplomacy.”

The KDNA has run a training program for foreign service official candidates for 6 years from 2014 with the aim of nurturing diplomats trusted and supported by citizens. Following the entrance ceremony on January 3, this year’s program focused on building ▲a sense of calling as public servants, ▲diplomatic expertise, and ▲ foreign language. The program will end on November 22.