South Korea

South Korea's central bank, set up on 12 June 1950 after the Bank of Korea Act was passed on 5 May of that year. Its stated purpose is to stabilise the value of the national currency.

A specially legislated quasi-government supervisory authority whose staff are private-sector employees rather than civil servants. It opened on 2 January 1999, merging four sector-based supervisors into one, under an Act the National Assembly approved on 29 December 1997.

The country's financial intelligence unit, founded in 2001 according to its own background page. After the 2008 reorganisation it forms part of the Financial Services Commission and leads the government's anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing effort.

An independent data protection authority. It was first established on 30 September 2011, when the Personal Information Protection Act took effect, and was re-established on 5 August 2020 as a ministerial-level central administrative agency.

Korea's central anti-corruption body, launched on 29 February 2008 by merging the Ombudsman of Korea, the Korea Independent Commission Against Corruption and the Administrative Appeals Commission.

Created in 2009 by combining the National Internet Development Agency of Korea, the Korea IT International Cooperation Agency and the Korea Information Security Agency, which had opened in 1996.

The central government ministry for employment and labour policy, based at the Government Complex Sejong. Its policy areas include employment, labour standards, labour relations and occupational safety and health.