Korea Gas Safety Corporation Cuts Unnecessary Regulations While Strengthening Gas Safety for the Public

— Review of 53 Field-Oriented Regulatory Improvement Tasks... Focus on Tangible Changes Felt by the Public and Businesses —

— Proactive Prevention Strengthened by Identifying Safety Blind Spots from Everyday Living Environments to Industrial Worksites —

The Korea Gas Safety Corporation (President & CEO Gyurnggoog Bahk, hereinafter referred to as KGS) announced that it held the “2026 KGS Regulatory Redesign Performance Review Meeting” and the “2026-1 Safety Measures Council” on August 25.

The meetings reviewed the results of regulatory improvements that the public and businesses can experience firsthand. They also discussed ways to strengthen safety management to prevent gas accidents in everyday life and industrial workplaces.

At the “KGS Regulatory Redesign Performance Review Meeting,” KGS conducted a comprehensive review of its regulatory redesign efforts during the first half of the year and shared key issues and challenges encountered in implementing each task.

For the second half of the year, KGS agreed to focus its efforts on delivering tangible results in the field, while reducing inconvenience caused by unnecessary regulations for the public and businesses and more firmly safeguarding essential safety.

At the meeting, KGS reviewed progress on 53 detailed tasks under four strategic areas: ▲ growth of new industries, ▲ economy and industry, ▲ private-sector autonomy, and ▲ safety and shared growth. It also presented the key achievements of five priority tasks and discussed major issues and future implementation plans in depth.

In particular, KGS went beyond simply checking whether each task had been implemented. It focused on how effectively each task had addressed the actual inconveniences experienced by the public and businesses in the field, and whether safety was being properly secured while reducing regulatory burdens. 

Based on these reviews, KGS plans to continue identifying regulatory improvement tasks that deliver tangible benefits in the field and to further expand their impact.

KGS also convened the Safety Measures Council, composed of leading experts in disaster response, inspection, and diagnostics, to discuss practical preventive measures aimed at reducing recurring gas accidents in everyday life and industrial workplaces.

KGS plans to further strengthen safety management around three key strategies under its comprehensive measures: ▲ reducing casualties from five major types of gas accidents, ▲ preventing accidents in places closely connected to daily life, and ▲ preventing accidents at industrial workplaces.

Established in July, the Safety Measures Council works to strengthen gas accident prevention and management and proactively identify and address risk factors that may have been overlooked under the existing safety management system.

KGS plans to review the implementation status of the comprehensive gas accident prevention measures established in the first quarter of 2026 and analyze the causes and implications of gas accidents that occurred during the first half of the year. 

Based on the findings, KGS will develop new preventive measures to prevent similar accidents from recurring in people’s daily lives and further reduce safety blind spots.

“The success of regulatory improvement should be measured not by how many tasks have been addressed, but by how much more convenient and safer people and businesses actually feel in the field,” said Gyurnggoog Bahk, President & CEO of KGS. He added, “KGS will reduce inconvenience and burdens caused by unnecessary regulations while further strengthening safety measures in areas directly linked to people’s lives.”