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Quality Management
KSA Holds the 36th National Quality
Management Contest
The 36th National Quality Management Contest was held at
COEX in Seoul on Nov. 23 with the attendance of 1,700 some
odd government officials, businesspeople, workers and other
guests. The annual event, sponsored by the Korean Agency for
Technology and Standards of the Ministry of Knowledge
Economy and managed by the Korean Standards Association
(KSA), is designed to spread quality management activities to all
industries by presenting national quality awards to excellent companies
and businesspeople that greatly contributed to improving
the quality of goods and services, a KSA spokesman said.
At the 2010 national quality management contest, a total of 16
companies and organizations received national quality awards in
recognition of their excellent quality management activities.
Five companies and organizations, including Woory
Industrial, Korea Monitoring System and Sogang University,
won a Quality Management Award. Meanwhile, Gyeonggi
Province received the Talent Development Award in recognition
of its contribution to actively fostering talent in industrial fields,
the spokesman said. The Quality Management Propulsion
Excellence Local Government Award, a newly established award
for this year, created to boost the quality management activities of
local governments, went to Busan Metropolitan City.
KEPCO NF won the Quality Competitiveness Excellence
Award and 10 companies and institutions, including the
Independence Hall of Korea, received the Service Quality
Excellence Award. Two companies, one of which was Kia
Motors, garnered the Circle Excellence Company Award, which
was newly established this year to boost quality group activities.
In recognition of their contribution to promoting quality management,
Oh Se-young, CEO of SCOMMTECH, and Chang
The 36th National Quality Management Contest
82 KOREA IT TIMES | December 2010