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| Developing Anti-Corruption Measures Based on Civil–Military Partnership | The
MND is working toward anti-corruption measures, aimed at achieving corruption-free national
defense, by expanding the people’s participation and monitoring of national defense policies

and their implementations, and building an anti-corruption system based on civil–military
partnership.
The MND will continue to build an anti-corruption system that engages the private sector,

such as the “Integrity Ombudsman” program, where civilian experts monitor and recommend
the correction of corruption in the military; the “Civil–Public Council for Corruption-Free
National Defense,” where the civil society provides advices on anti-corruption measures in the

military; and the Anti-Corruption Policy Monitoring Group that engages citizens, and create
corruption-free MOUs with anti-corruption civil groups aimed at spreading a corruption-free
culture. In addition, for the systematic implementation of anti-corruption policies, the MND
will retain the services of experts to assess the current direction of the MND’s anti-corruption

policies and ref lect the f indings in its medium-/long-term plans.
The MND also requires servicemembers across all services to receive anti-corruption education

to raise their awareness of the value of corruption-free public service, and have servicemembers
regard it as the basis for performing any duty. The MND has been ref ining the relevant
regulations to protect whistle-blowers from personnel and f inancial retaliations, and requires all
off icers to take classes on whistle-blower protection. Violators will be subject to strict measures

pursuant to the relevant statutes, including those who sought out whistle-blowers, disclosed
their personal information, or imposed disadvantageous measures against them, and whistle-
blowers will be rewarded for their contribution, if any, to the development of national defense.

| Promoting Policy PR Activities | To meet the people’s expectation for participation and
change, the MND is actively promoting its key policies, including Defense Reform 2.0, through

various channels including the press, online spaces, and off-line activities.
In particular, the MND has developed online and mobile press release (PR) contents to
capitalize on their ever-growing inf luence for mutual communication with the people. The

MND created various online contents on tasks of Defense Reform 2.0 such as the 2018–2022
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Framework Plan for Military Welfare, military medical reform, judicial reform, the 7 Seoul
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Defense Dialogue (SDD), the 70 ROK Armed Forces Day, and the 2018 International Fleet

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