[1][2] South Korea's progress in digital government services is evidenced by its performance in the United Nations' E-Government Development Index (EGDI).
In 2020, South Korea had the second lowest share of women in senior management in central government positions among OECD countries, with a slight increase from 6% in 2015 to 9% in 2020.
[7] Initiated in the 1990s, Korea's e-Government strategy aimed to meet increasing demands for online public services and transparency.
Through OECD guidance, Korea enhanced its strategies focusing on digital identity, a data-driven public sector, and user-centric service design.
[4] South Korea's Digital Government Master Plan 2021–2025 is structured around three primary objectives:[8] South Korea's E-Government project first started as part of the office automation efforts for statistical analysis work in the Economy Planning Board (EPB) and the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) which are established by Park Chung Hee's government (Influenced by Japan's governance, Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) and the Keiretsu system to be precise) with the introduction of computers in 1967.
Moves to introduce ICT into government took the form of E-Government projects for building the necessary infrastructure to achieve this end, under the "Five Year Basic Plan on Informatization of Public Administration".
These efforts, led by the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs (MOGAHA), paved the way for the implementation of South Korea's advanced digitization policies in the 1980s.
With the inauguration of the Kim Dae-jung administration in 1998, the official government homepage went online and Internet-based civil services, such as real estate registration, became available.
The SCEG[9][clarification needed] began work in February of the same year, holding 12 executive and two general meetings where detailed plans for implementation, as well as funding for the 11 newly selected key E-Government projects, listed in (Table 1), were drawn up and reported to the President on 7 May 2001.