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| Koh Jean, chairman of the Presidential Committee on the Digital Platform Government, speaks during a press conference at the Korea Press Center building in Seoul, Monday. Korea Times photo by Baek Byung-yeul |
Gov't to offer more user-friendly digital services
By Baek Byung-yeul
The government vowed to provide more user-friendly digital services such as allowing data sharing across ministries and enabling real estate registration applications without seal certification, the head of the Presidential Committee on the Digital Platform Government said, Monday.
"A year ago, when I was asked to chair the Presidential Committee on the Digital Platform Government, I told President Yoon Suk Yeol that we would not just be an advisory committee, but a policy committee that would directly create tasks for a digital platform government with members from private companies and be responsible for our implementation," Koh Jean, chairman of the committee said in a press conference, Seoul.
"The president asked me to think of the committee as an organization that works together with him, not just advises him. The committee has been working hard to fulfill that promise during the past year," the chairman said during the event held to celebrate its first anniversary.
The committee was launched last September as part of the president's pledges to provide better administrational services based on AI and scientific data.
The committee's achievements since its inauguration include the creation of the action plan to make a Digital Platform Government, which it announced to the public last April, he said.
"After seven months of in-depth discussions and heated debates, we came up with four key priorities and 122 detailed implementation tasks," the chairman said. "Since the announcement, the committee has been transformed into 17 mission-oriented task forces."
Koh cited bridging the divide between administrative and judicial agencies as a representative task whose results will be felt sooner.
"The most important thing we have considered is the convenience of the people. We have been aiming to bridge the divide between the executive and judicial branches since the committee was established."
Giving examples, Koh said the judiciary agencies have agreed to share family relationship certificates with the administrative agencies. Currently, the Supreme Court has finalized the processes and will apply the new system to the administrative agencies by the end of the year.
He explained that linking the systems will increase public convenience in various sectors, such as being able to check eligibility in advance when applying for a new apartment. "With this new system, we expect the inconvenience of people will be dramatically reduced from the end of the year," Koh said.
The number of seal certificates, which are issued in about 30.75 million cases annually, will also be significantly reduced. The committee aims to abolish the requirement for seal certifications in cases where it is simply customary or unnecessary and provide digital alternatives where required. He said that as early as 2025, seal certificates will not be required to apply for electronic registration of real estate.
The committee is also working on projects that utilize AI to offer safety in daily life for the public. Various projects such as AI calling welfare system to check the safeness of elders and AI predicting and analyzing crowding risk situations using information on access to telecom base stations will be promoted this year.
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