Korea’s National Information Society Agency (NIA) said on July 8 it obtained certification for the Anti-Bribery Management System (ISO 37001) from the Certification Institute for Small and Medium Venture Business.

ISO 37001 is an international standard for anti-bribery management systems set by the International Organization for Standardization. It evaluates whether an organisation’s policies, procedures and internal control systems to systematically manage and prevent corruption risks are operated in line with international standards.

NIA said it reorganised its ethics management implementation framework based on a standard model for ethical management to obtain the certification. It also built an ethical risk management system using a risk control matrix (RCM). It set up an Ethics Communication Team, a dedicated integrity and ethics unit, and operated an enterprise-wide risk management system centred on integrity leaders in each department.

Hyeong-cheol Kim (김형철), head of NIA, said the certification objectively recognised that NIA’s ethical management system meets international standards. He said NIA would continue improvements and implementation to develop into a public institution trusted by the public.