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O1O'2920'8855 )PCASH( O1O'2920'8855 ) The ACRC plans to continuously promote anti-corruption policies and technical assistance projects for those countries that signed an MOU with the Commission. In addition, the Commission plans to expand the technical assistance recipients to the countries in Africa and South America, through the integrity education course for foreign public officials

O1O'2920'8855 )PCASH( O1O'2920'8855 ) conducted in 2013 for the first time. The Commission also plans to strengthen the projects to share major Ombudsman policies (e.g. e-People) and investigating techniques, as well as to expand MOUs to protect overseas residents. In the meantime, it is planning to contribute to the capacity building of Ombudsmen by

O1O'2920'8855 )PCASH( O1O'2920'8855 ) Furthermore, the ACRC will also hold briefing sessions on major policies for foreign entrepreneurs in order that their difficulties can be heard and they can become aware of the improvements made by anti-corruption activities in Korea as well as the will and effort to build a transparent society and a business-friendly environment

O1O'2920'8855 )PCASH( O1O'2920'8855 ) Lastly, the ACRC will follow up the recent discussions of international organizations and the new trends in the systems and policies of developed countries and utilize the collected data when dealing with policies on complaint handling, anti-corruption, and administrative appeals.

O1O'2920'8855 )PCASH( O1O'2920'8855 ) In 2013, the number of press reports increased by 19%, and the number of policy customers through SNS also increased by as much as 27%. Furthermore, public awareness of the Commission recorded 52.8%, a 1.3% points increase compared to the previous year, and the overall awareness of the ACRC's major policies also increased.

O1O'2920'8855 )PCASH( O1O'2920'8855 ) Whenever the ACRC released a new policy, it made a feature report by issue to communicate with the people. When an important policy issue occurs, the Chairman and high-ranking officials directly and actively held media interviews and contributed to newspapers for the better understanding of the people

O1O'2920'8855 )PCASH( O1O'2920'8855 ) In the meantime, in 2013, the ACRC also focused on foreign press reports. It actively encouraged foreign press reports by providing the member reporters of the Seoul Foreign Correspondents' Club with its press releases in English and other materials such as the themes, presen-

O1O'2920'8855 )PCASH( O1O'2920'8855 ) tations, and schedules of its international conferences in order to draw attention at home and abroad on Korea's anticorruption and integrity policies. In particular, the feature reports and joint campaigns conducted with the representative English newspapers in Korea, the Korea Times and the Korea Herald, resulted in new accomplishments such as favorable foreign news reports

O1O'2920'8855 )PCASH( O1O'2920'8855 ) In addition, the Commission succeeded in arousing the sympathy of the people, by sharing individual complaint cases in emotional narrative form, accelerating the necessary shift of government policies. Based on the public sentiment, it also significantly contributed to raising the people's confidence in the government policies that have consideration for the socially disadvantaged