The ratio of women in the Korean civil service has exceeded 50% for the first time since the inception of the Government of Republic of Korea. The Korean government has been implementing a wide range of reformative measures to achieve a gender-balanced civil service with equal opportunity and the share of women in the civil service has been gradually increasing. The preliminary results of the annually-released statistics on national civil service in the public administration sector for 2017 show the proportion of women in the national civil service at 50.2%. The finalized results will be released in the coming weeks.

The Percentage (number) of Women in Civil Service* in Korea

2012 48.1% (299,539)

2014 49.0% (310,860)

2016 49.8% (323,575)

2017 50.2%**

*: Does not include civil servants in local governments, legislative and judiciary bodies.

**: tentative   

Source: MPM