Government’s Annual Operation Reports Shift to “Performance Agreements”

In the future, government organizations’ annual operations reports to the president will be changed from one-time events to “Performance Agreements” between the president and the heads of government organizations.

Han Duck-soo, chief of the Office of State Affairs Coordination reported a “plan for improving each government sections’ annual operations reports” at a conference on innovative government propulsion between ministers and deputy ministers held at a detached office of the Central Government Complex in Seoul before president Roh Moo-hyun on October 30.

As there has been indications that most of the operations reports to the president have been “reports for reports to find favor in the president’s eyes,” the Office of State Affairs Coordination planned to suggest a performance index so that each department’s policy goals and performance can be measured, and it will evaluate them at the end of the year and make the results public.

Accordingly, next year’s operations report will contain an “evaluation of the previous year’s policy results, a new year’s policy task, and a performance measurement index,” and the Office of State Affairs Coordination will plan to develop this as a system of “Performance Agreements” between the president and heads of government organizations in the long run.

Jung-Hun Kim jnghn@donga.com