President Lee Jae-myung is presiding over the Anti-Corruption Policy Council with ministers of key ministries and heads of public institutions at the Blue House today (the 21st).

The Anti-Corruption Policy Council is a ministerial meeting of anti-corruption related agencies established to comprehensively and systematically promote anti-corruption policies at the pan-governmental level, going beyond individual ministries responding to separate corruption cases.

This is the first time the council has been held since the launch of the government last year.

A total of 18 agency heads are attending today's meeting, including the Chairperson of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission, the Minister for Government Policy Coordination, the Minister of Finance and Economy, the Chairperson of the Fair Trade Commission, the Chairperson of the Financial Services Commission, the Commissioner of the National Tax Service, the Acting Commissioner General of the Korean National Police Agency, the Chairperson of the Board of Audit and Inspection, and the Director of the National Intelligence Service.

The meeting is structured around sessions where responsible agencies report on topics such as eradicating localized and deep-rooted irregularities, eradicating public contract corruption, eradicating national financial embezzlement like subsidy fraud, and eradicating collusive ties between former and current officials, followed by a comprehensive discussion.

It is expected that measures to eradicate internal police corruption, including the "hyangchal" issue sparked by the recent Jang Yoon-gi case or the "Geoje King" controversy, will also be discussed.

Previously, during a meeting of senior secretaries and advisors presided over by President Lee yesterday (the 20th), he urged, "Past administrations have frequently lost public trust due to lax official discipline at a time when the tension of the early term begins to loosen," adding, "We must use past cases as a lesson to avoid committing the same mistakes again."

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