South Korean government ministry overseeing public administration, local governance, and national safety and disaster-management policy.
South Korea will move the Financial Services Commission and its Financial Intelligence Unit, 420 staff in all, to Sejong in the second half of 2027. Critics say distance will slow crisis response, but the evidence so far is one October meeting and a survey of another agency.
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Korea's interior ministry plans to move 44 agencies and 9,929 officials to Sejong between 2027 and 2031 at a cost of about 3.2 trillion won. The Assembly's Sejong chamber is targeted for 2033, so ministries may keep shuttling to Seoul.
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South Korea's interior ministry will split 50 billion won of its depopulation fund by grading how well neighbouring local governments cooperate. That is about 5% of the fund's yearly 1 trillion won, a small first test of paying for joint projects.
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South Korea's interior ministry will build disaster recovery for 13 of about 15,000 state information systems by the first half of 2027. Its other commitment, replacing the fire-hit Daejeon center by 2030, is still open between new construction and a lease.
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South Korea plans to discipline public-agency heads for basic cyber lapses after 247 public-sector breaches since 2021 led to no head being disciplined. The penalties are headed into the rules now, while the staff incentives and the security budget are still being worked out.
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The share of Koreans meeting the daily 500-gram fruit and vegetable target has fallen by about a third since 2016, and the growth retailers report is in fruit somebody else has already cut into halves, quarters and eighths.
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The Prosecution Service is abolished in under two weeks. Its two successors are still waiting on a justice minister, a prosecutor general and a first commissioner, and on an organizational plan nobody has signed.
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The Interior Ministry's first statutory plan lifts annual issuance to 31.2 trillion won by 2030 while recruiting corporate buyers and private loyalty points to carry growth that state funding alone would otherwise have to cover.
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