How Ayanyang City Achieved 4 Years of Audit Excellence: Key Strategies for Transparency and Accountability

[iNews24 Reporter Lee Sang-wan] Anyang City in Gyeonggi Province won the Excellence Award in the 2026 Gyeonggi Province Self-Audit Activity Evaluation for the fourth year in a row.

On April 1, the city said it has won the Excellence Award each year from 2023 through 2026, reinforcing its reputation as a city of integrity.

Gyeonggi Province evaluated the self-audit activities of 31 cities and counties across the province during February and March, reviewing overall self-audit performance for 2025. Anyang received high marks across key evaluation categories, including preventive auditing, strengthening internal self-audit practices, and efforts to improve audit activities.

In particular, the city actively involved citizen auditors from diverse fields in its internal audits to promote citizen-centered, transparent audit administration, and it established an “Audit Rights and Interests Protection Officer” system to enhance the effectiveness of its self-audit efforts.

It also identified unreasonable or unnecessary procedures and pursued follow-up measures—corrective actions, formal requests for improvement, and recommendations—to ensure those changes were implemented, earning praise for strengthening audit effectiveness and administrative accountability.

A city official said, “We will continue to strengthen administrative transparency and public trust through preventive audits and institutional reforms.”

Meanwhile, the city also received the highest grade last year for the third consecutive year in the self-audit activity review conducted by the Board of Audit and Inspection, solidifying its standing as a national model for audit excellence.