The Korea Forest Service (KFS) held the second plenary session of the 2026 Forest Policy Evaluation Committee at the Daejeon Government Complex on Tuesday. The agency confirmed it had reviewed and finalized the "2026 Performance Management Implementation Plan" aimed at achieving a qualitative leap in forest administration and delivering results that citizens can tangibly feel.
The meeting coincided with the commissioning ceremony for the 13th Forest Policy Evaluation Committee, which will operate for two years starting in February this year. A total of 24 civilian members from academia, civic organizations and research institutes participated, objectively reviewing the KFS's performance management framework and discussing future directions for improvement.
The core focus of this year's KFS performance management lies in redesigning the value of outcomes — shifting away from supplier-oriented simple output metrics toward results that citizens actually experience (outcome-based).
To this end, the KFS finalized a total of 56 key performance indicators centered on five strategic objectives: △sustainable forest circular management, △public welfare through forests for citizens' well-being, △revitalizing forestry household economies, △science-based forest disaster response, and △global forest cooperation.
Notably, the plan immediately incorporated the core missions of the newly established Forest Disaster Management Division and Forest Road Management Team into the performance framework, aiming to maximize policy execution in response to rapidly changing forest conditions. The move is significant in that it goes beyond merely creating new divisions and marks the full-scale launch of "performance-centered organizational management" designed to fulfill the KFS's core missions in the field.
Additionally, the KFS plans to advance an AI-compatible data management system to drive the digital transformation of forest administration. The agency also intends to foster a high-performing organizational culture by linking evaluation results to individual compensation.
"Performance management is not simply about checking results — it is a process of proving how we have fulfilled our promises to the public," KFS Commissioner Park Eun-sik said. "Based on expert advice from the newly launched Forest Policy Evaluation Committee, all KFS staff, including those in newly established units, will pursue proactive forest administration that finds answers in the field."