South Korea, adaptability
Korea Internet and Security Agency, a consolidated digital authority
Korea established the Korea Internet and Security Agency in July 2009 by integrating three predecessor organisations, giving the country one public body for internet development, security and international information technology cooperation.
2,009 year, year the korea internet and security agency was established, 2009. Korea Internet and Security Agency, history, retrieved 2026-08-30.
The move, and what it needed
Three specialised organisations were combined into one agency so that internet development, security and international cooperation could be handled through a shared public capability.
Preconditions
- A government willing to merge overlapping specialist bodies
- Technical staff and institutional knowledge that can survive the merger
- A mandate broad enough to connect infrastructure, security and cooperation
Limits: The integration date and mandate show a public response to a changing digital environment, not the agency's effectiveness against cyber threats or its performance across every programme. The agency is the source for its own institutional history.
This record describes what South Korea delivered. It is linked to Institutional responsiveness because no comparable dataset measures that capability. It does not affect the score or confidence.
More from South Korea
2 other deliveries from this country.
Economic Planning Board, long-run industrial coordination
South Korea's Economic Planning Board operated from 1961 to 1994 as the government body responsible for economic development planning and budget planning before its functions moved through later finance ministries.
MyData, citizen-directed data portability
South Korea's MyData policy gives people a route to request and direct the transfer of personal data between services, with the Personal Information Protection Commission describing the scheme as a way to give people control over data portability after the March 2023 legal amendment.
The same gap elsewhere
7 deliveries linked to Institutional responsiveness in other countries.
Plano Real, the 1994 currency stabilisation
Brazil ended four decades of high inflation with a staged currency reform, taking annual consumer price inflation from 2,075.9 percent in 1994 to 3.2 percent in 1998.
Proalcool, the fuel substitution after the oil shock
Brazil answered the 1973 oil shock by mandating ethanol blending and building a national fuel alcohol industry, taking production from 580 thousand cubic metres in 1975 to 38,199 in 2025, and from 2003 flex-fuel engines moved the choice to the driver.
The Convertibility Plan, and its collapse
Argentina ended hyperinflation by fixing the peso to the dollar by law in April 1991, taking annual inflation from 4,923 percent in 1989 to 3.9 percent in 1994, and the regime held until it collapsed in the 2001-2002 crisis.
Kurzarbeit in the 2008-2009 crisis
Germany answered the 2008-2009 collapse in manufacturing orders by paying firms to cut hours instead of jobs, and short-time work covered 1.44 million workers at the May 2009 peak, about 5 percent of insured employment, while unemployment barely rose.
The 2001 stabilisation, and its unwinding
Turkey answered its 2001 banking collapse with central bank independence, bank restructuring and fiscal rule, taking inflation from 54.4 percent in 2001 to 8.6 percent in 2004, and after 2018 the same framework was overridden until inflation reached 72.3 percent in 2022.
Telebras, the telecom system that was dismantled
Created in 1972, Telebras coordinated Brazil's state telecom system until its 1998 privatisation, when 54 concessionaires were split out and the state moved from operating the network to regulating and universalising service.
Estonian Defence League, national defence rebuilt after independence
The Estonian Defence League was re-established in February 1990, before the country regained independence, and operates as a voluntary national defence organisation under the Ministry of Defence with territorial units and its own training structure.