Republic of Korea

The Republic of Korea is ranked 9th overall on the Index. It achieves the top score for fiscal and financial management.

Summary chart of Republic of Korea's scores in the 2019 InCiSE index. GBR NZL CAN FIN AUS DNK NOR NLD SWE USA EST CHE IRL AUT FRA ESP BEL DEU LTU MEX CHL LVA JPN ITA SVN ISR POL ISL CZE PRT TUR SVK HRV BGR ROU GRC HUN KOR InCiSE 0.77 0.52 Capabilities Crisis and risk management Digital services Fiscal and financial management HR management Inclusiveness Integrity Openness Policy making Procurement Regulation Tax administration

The Republic of Korea achieves above average scores for all core functions and appears in the top 5 country rankings for half of these indicators. It achieves the top position for fiscal and financial management mainly because of very high scores for the transparency of public spending and budget practices themes.

The Republic of Korea is ranked 3rd for HR management and regulation, then 4th for procurement. Within the HR management indicator, all but one of the metric scores are well above average and these results suggest a relatively meritocratic recruitment system overall. The Republic of Korea achieves the maximum score for the metric on the use of databases for HR management.

On regulation, the Republic of Korea’s metric scores are consistently above average, while for procurement a high score for the e-procurement related metric is noteworthy.

The main attribute where scores are relatively low is inclusiveness.

Cross-referencing note

This content was presented as section 4.22 in the original 2019 publication.