Gender ministry, broadcasting watchdog receive lowest performance evaluations in 2023

SEOUL, Four government agencies, including the gender ministry and the broadcasting watchdog, received the lowest scores in their annual performance evaluation for 2023, officials said Tuesday. The Office for Government Policy Coordination disclosed the outcomes of its comprehensive assessment of the performance of 45 government agencies under the central government across four categories last year. According to the results, the four minister-level agencies -- the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC), the Ministry of Unification and the Personal Information Protection Commission -- received the lowest possible rating of "C." Notably, three of them, excluding the Ministry of Unification, have received the lowest rating for two consecutive years, with the Ministry of Gender Equality and the KCC receiving the lowest rating across all four categories in 2023. During his presidential campaign, President Yoon Suk Yeol pledged to abolish the Ministry of Gender Equali ty. Meanwhile, the KCC faced internal turmoil after its former Chairman Lee Dong-kwan resigned last year ahead of a National Assembly vote on his impeachment. "The relative low evaluations were attributed to poor public perception of policy effectiveness or inadequate management of each specific sector," the office said in a press release. Meanwhile, 12 agencies, including the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, received the highest evaluation level in 2023, it said. The performance report involved evaluations by 222 civil experts and included a survey of 30,000 members of the public. Source: Yonhap News Agency