The result of the renewed 2022 Public Institution Comprehensive Integrity Assessment that covers both the integrity assessment and the anti-corruption initiative assessment found that public service-related organizations received the highest score of 85.7 points, followed by lower level local governments (76.6), national universities (75.2), and public hospitals (75.9).

Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC, Chairperson Jeon Hyun-Heui) released the result of the 2022 Public Institution Comprehensive Integrity Assessment and grades by type of public institution in the morning on Jan. 26 at the Government Complex-Seoul.

ACRC has started to apply the renewed comprehensive integrity assessment system since 2022 after it restructured the assessment system by integrating the existing integrity assessment with the anti-corruption initiative assessment.

Over the past one year, ACRC conducted the revised CIA on 15 types, 569 public institutions by aggregating the results of the assessment of: integrity perception* measured by the survey of complainants and internal members on external duties and internal operation; integrity effort assessed based on the anti-corruption performances and achievements of each public institution; and corruption realities measured by the statistics of actual corruption cases.

* A total of 225-thousand people, including approximately 160-thousand citizens who have first-hand experiences of civil services of public institutions and 65-thousand internal members of public institutions, responded to the survey of integrity perception

The score for the comprehensive integrity level of each public institution was calculated by weighted summation of the scores for integrity perception and effort level by a ratio of 60:40 and subsequent deduction of the score for corruption realities.