- making a promise to share our experience of establishing a legal information system with Ministry of Justice and Home Affairs of Mongolia - reaching an agreement to cooperate with the School of Law of the National University of Mongolia for modifying the tax law of Mongolia □ Ministry of Government Legislation (Minister Kim Oe-sook) visits the Ministry of Justice and Home Affairs of Mongolia and the School of Law of the National University of Mongolia for three days and two nights from September 13 to 15 and holds a discussion to strengthen legislative exchange and cooperation. □ Minister Kim Oe-sook meets with S. Byambatsogt, Minister of Justice and Home Affairs of Mongolia, and signs a work plan as a follow-up measure to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in 2014 in the morning of September 14. ㅇ Mongolia that has an interest in the success of our “national legal information system”* asked us to share our experience of developing the system before this event. * national legal information system: service to enable access to 3.7 million laws, lower laws, local statutes, and case laws in one website, over 400 thousand visitors per day < Main Contents of Work Plan > &bull; Main Contents - Eestablishing a conference and a training program for sharing our experience of building the legal information system - Frequently exchanging publicly available laws of the two countries and publications in the legal field - Organizing a seminar on legislation &bull; Implementation schedule: 2018 - 2020 ㅇ We expect that when the work plan is signed, the foundation for development of a legal information system in Mongolia is established, we are provided with laws and regulations of the country at all times, and we can provide them to Korean companies that are trying to advance into Mongolia. □ In addition, our Minister visits the School of Law of the National University of Mongolia, has a talk with J. Erdenebulgan, dean of the School of Law, and signs a MoU in the afternoon of September 14. ㅇ The MoU is mainly about exchange of information and human resources for the research to modify the Mongolian tax law, which is being implemented according to the demand from the National University of Mongolia as part of our “legislation consulting project”* for developing countries this year. * legislation consulting project of the Ministry of Government Legislation: project of conducting a research based on specific legislative demand from each country, creating legislation and revision bills, and informing every country of our legislative activity ㅇ We expect that if this research results in the appropriate combination of our legal system and the reality of Mongolia, it would be a cornerstone for reforming the tax law of the country. □ Before visiting the two organizations, Minister Kim Oe-sook said she is aware that the Mongolian government is making an effort to introduce an advanced system in order to realize reform and openness. ㅇ Our Minister also said that she hopes this visit would give the two countries an opportunity to promote the mutual development by introducing our legal system to Mongolia and receiving legal information of the country. □ Meanwhile, Ministry of Government Legislation has maintained the cooperative relation with various countries. For example, we have signed 22 MoUs with 14 countries* as of September of 2017. * China, Thailand, Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Malaysia, Singapore, Colombia ㅇ Our Ministry will foster more diverse and greater exchange and cooperation in the field of legislation with other countries based on our experience and accomplishment of establishing a legal system.

- The 5th ALES successfully completed. - Minister Kim stressed human rights protection beyond disaster/accident response. □ Ministry of Government Legislation (“MOLEG”) hosted the 5th Asian Legislative Experts Symposium (“ALES”) under the theme of “Legislative Study on Safety Management to Respond to Disasters” at the Millenium Hilton in Seoul, Korea on November 1, 2017. ㅇ 170 persons from 37 countries (including Indonesia, China and Thailand), including the experts of laws related to disasters and accidents participated in the 5th Symposium to discuss about legislative development strategies that will allow the Asian countries (which have been frequently hit by disasters and accidents) to effectively respond to disasters and accidents. □ Minister Kim emphasized that the accidents and disasters pose greater threat to the vulnerable class, such as women, children and the poor. ㅇ She said, “I wish this 5th ALES will assure the safety of citizens in Asia and protect the human rights by inviting the participants to share, compare and analyse their legislative experiences on disaster and accident response.” □ Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to Korea, Umar Hadi, said in his congratulatory message that Indonesia is also laboring over the ways to protect people from disasters and accidents, and international cooperation is essential, because disasters and accidents do not mind national borders. He also emphasized the need for international cooperation through legislation. □ The presentations and discussions took place in 2 sessions, where the current statuses of each Asian countries in terms of disaster and accident related laws were presented and ways to better organize such laws were discussed. ㅇ During the Session 1, the current statuses of applicable laws in Asian countries, including Korea, were reviewed, and ㅇ during the Session 2, an in-depth discussion was made about the ways to organize the laws which will especially assure the building safety at the times of disasters and accidents. □ Research institutions specializing in legislation, disaster/accident response and safety, public officers from related government offices, professors and experts participated in each Session and made specific discussions based on their experiences on related policies. ㅇ They agreed that the laws must be organized to respond promptly to the frequent disasters and accidents, and ㅇ proposed various ways to organize the law in consideration of each country's economic development status and changes in social and economic backgrounds. □ MOLEG plans to continue to promote the ALES, by broadening the theme of future Symposiums, so that the ALES will cover common interests of Asian countries, and by encouraging more Asian countries to send their people.