How 한전KPS Plans to Combat Corruption in 2026: Key Strategies Revealed

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[iNews24 reporter Han Bong-su] HanKPS, a company specializing in maintenance of generation and transmission facilities, held an inaugural “Integrity Grand Unification” declaration ceremony at its headquarters in Naju, South Jeolla Province, with labor, management and the audit office participating.

The event carried significance as the CEO, the standing auditor and the labor union leader came together to reaffirm integrity and fairness as the organization’s top operational values and to launch the Integrity Grand Unification initiative aimed at addressing corruption vulnerabilities at their root.

HanKPS has identified three priority corruption-vulnerable areas for this year—insufficient trust in the reporting system, dissatisfaction with organizational culture, and procedural violations—and plans to implement action-oriented integrity policies to tackle them.

To that end, the company will strengthen protections for whistleblowers and establish a fair system for handling reports. It will also promote a fair, merit-based personnel culture and upgrade field-focused compliance and management systems, launching enterprise-wide improvement efforts.

At the ceremony, labor, management and the audit office pledged to move beyond separated roles, jointly define integrity standards and put them into practice, formalizing that commitment with a cooperative agreement to implement the Integrity Grand Unification.

Union chair Kim Jong-il said integrity is not achieved by declaration alone but must be proven through changes people experience on the ground, and affirmed that the union will play a responsible role in building an honest organizational culture based on employees’ voices.

Standing Auditor Lee Seong-gyu emphasized that to eliminate this year’s three identified corruption risks, labor, management and the audit office must set shared integrity standards. He called for strengthening trust in the reporting system, reforming unreasonable practices across organizational culture, and creating tangible changes at worksites so that principles and procedures are rigorously observed.

CEO Kim Hong-yeon said the organization must transition from separated roles to a single accountable body that jointly sets and implements integrity standards, and added that today’s declaration will serve as the starting point for eliminating corruption vulnerabilities and advancing the company as a leading institution for integrity.