Leaders Index surveyed 350 places… Public corporations > quasi-governmental institutions have the largest number of remaining tenures
Even following the inauguration of the new government, more than 63% of the heads and auditors of 350 public institutions had more than one year and 45% had two years or more remaining.
By type of institution, 86% of heads of public corporations, 83% of heads of quasi-governmental organizations, and 62% of heads of other public institutions remained in office for more than one year.
As a result of conducting a full investigation of the tenure of executive officers of 350 public institutions through the Public Institutions Management Information Disclosure System (Alio), the Leaders Index, a research institute for corporate analysis, found 231 out of 332 institutional heads (69.5%) and 59 out of 105 standing auditors ( 56.2%) said on the 22nd that it was analyzed that the term of office was more than one year.
Of the total of 460 including 437, including the head of these institutions and auditors, and 23 currently vacant positions, 290, or 63% of the total, have more than one year left.
207, 45%, have two years left.
The number of heads of public institutions whose term of office expires within this year was 46, 13.9% (compared to 332 people), and the number of standing auditors was 29, accounting for 27.6% (compared to 105 people).
According to the analysis, the number of heads of institutions and standing auditors whose terms end before May 10, when President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol begins his term, was 18 and 7, respectively.
Specifically, out of 36 public enterprises, three people, including Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) President Jae-Hoon Jung (term expires on April 4), Korea Gas Corporation President Hee-Bong Chae (July 8), and Korea District Heating Corporation President Chang-Hwa Hwang (September 30), will be appointed within this year. tenure ends
However, in the case of President Jeong Jae-hoon, who has been at the forefront of the current government’s ‘nuclear phase out’ policy, he is pursuing a re-appointment.
KHNP has already held the board of directors and general shareholders’ meeting to deal with President Jung’s one-year reappointment plan, and following that, the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy recommends it, and the president approves it, and the final decision will be made.
The terms of Park Jae-hyeon, president of Korea Water Resources Corporation (February 27 next year) and Choi Jun-wook, president of Incheon Port Authority (March 17, next year) expire within one year.
The remaining 86.1%, or the head of 31 public corporations, had more than one year left, and 17 of them had more than two years left.
In particular, seven heads of public corporations have been appointed since November last year, when the 20th presidential election campaign began in earnest.
Won Kyung-hwan, president of Korea Coal Corporation, Na Hee-seung, president of Korea Railroad Corporation, Park Seong-hyeon, president of Yeosu Gwangyang Port Corporation, Lee Jong-guk, president of SR Co., Ltd.
Among quasi-governmental institutions, 77 (82.8%) out of 93 heads of 94 institutions (non-executive heads of the Korean Press Foundation) and 17 out of 32 standing auditors had more than one year remaining in their tenure.
Among the agency heads and standing auditors of quasi-governmental institutions, 29 people (24 agency heads, 5 standing auditors) who started their tenure following November last year were identified.
Among them, five people, including Ahn Ho-geun, president of Agricultural Technology Commercialization Foundation, Lee Byung-ho, president of Korea Rural Community Corporation, Noh Su-hyeon, director of Agricultural and Food Technology Planning and Evaluation Institute, Jeon Bon-hee, auditor of the Korea Creative Content Agency, and Lim Chan-ki, auditor of Korea Gas Safety Corporation started their tenure in March of this year. Among them, three were identified as senior expert members of the Democratic Party or former Blue House administrators.
Of the 220 other public institutions, 123 out of 200 heads, 61.5%, and 23 out of 40, standing auditors were counted as having more than one year of remaining in office.
/yunhap news
