South Korea, trust
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.
2023 year, year of the legal amendment establishing the data portability right, 2023. Personal Information Protection Commission, MyData policy notice, retrieved 2026-08-30.
The move, and what it needed
The state gives people a legal route to move their own data between providers, shifting data access from a private platform choice toward a user-directed right.
Preconditions
- A privacy authority able to define consent and portability rules
- Interoperable data formats and secure transfer channels
- Providers willing and able to respond to a person's authorised request
Limits: A portability right shows a legal design for user control, not whether people understand it, use it safely or receive better services. The policy notice describes the legal framework and is not an independent assessment of outcomes.
This record describes what South Korea delivered. It is linked to Trust in public institutions because no comparable dataset measures that capability. It does not affect the score or confidence.
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7 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.
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.
Korean regulatory-sandbox system across eight sectors
South Korea expanded its regulatory-sandbox system from ICT and industrial-convergence fields in January 2019 to eight sectoral regimes by 2024, adding finance, regulatory-free zones, smart cities, R&D zones, mobility and circular economy testing.
Employer and in-work training under Employment Insurance, and its erosion
Korea's Employment Insurance-funded employer and in-work training reached 4,916 thousand training participations in 2018, then fell to 2,410 thousand in 2025 after the Ministry of Employment and Labor withdrew support for statutory common training in 2019, COVID closed classrooms in 2020 and a cap on outsourced remote training took effect in late 2023.
Gyeongbu high-speed railway (KTX), and its cost and schedule overrun
Korea built the Seoul to Busan high-speed line planned in 1990 at 5,846.2 billion won for opening in early 1999; by 1993 the Ministry of Transportation re-estimated the cost at 12,174.3 billion won, the first phase opened in April 2004 and the whole line opened in 2010.
National Assembly Futures Institute
Korea's National Assembly enacted the National Assembly Future Institute Act on 12 December 2017 and opened the institute on 28 May 2018 with a statutory duty to predict and analyse changes in the future environment and derive mid to long term national development strategies; its English-language research report archive listed 203 reports in 2026.
KMA earthquake early warning service
The Korea Meteorological Administration expanded the national seismic network from 195 stations when its earthquake early warning service started in January 2015 to 550 stations, and by May 2026 issued early warnings within 5 to 10 seconds of first detection.
The same indicator elsewhere
2 deliveries linked to Trust in public institutions in other countries.
Cadastro Único, the unified social registry
Since 2001, Cadastro Único has identified and characterized low-income families across Brazil and has become the entry point for more than 40 federal, state and municipal social programmes.
Portal da Transparência, the federal open-books system
Launched in 2004, Portal da Transparência has spent 20 years publishing federal revenue, expenditure, personnel and transfer information so citizens can inspect how public money is used.