The ACRC made recommendations to all public organizations (central government agencies, local governments, educational organizations and public service organizations) to set an upper limit on the honorarium that is given to the public officials. The recommendation aims to prevent public officials from receiving excessive compensation for giving lectures relating to their work from private enterprises and affiliated organizations, and it requires setting the limit within the honorarium scale of the Central Officials Training Institute (COTI).

The COTI's honorarium limit per hour is KRW 400,000 for Ministers, KRW 300,000 for Vice Ministers, KRW 230,000 for Directors and above, and KRW 120,000 for Deputy Directors and under.

Recently, some cases of public officials receiving high compensation for a lecture from private companies and affiliated organizations were highlighted in the parliamentary inspection of the administration and the media.

The current version of the Code of Conduct for Public Officials bans public officials from receiving an honorarium that exceeds the standards set by the inviting organizations, but there has not been a specific standard or a basis on which to impose restrictions on a large honorarium.

The public organizations, in accordance with the recommendations, should set an upper limit within the guidelines suggested by the ACRC, and the implementation of limit will be incorporated into the Anti-Corruption Competitiveness Assessment that is conducted by the ACRC at the end of year.

In addition to setting an upper limit on the honorarium, the ACRC also recommends that the Code of Conduct Officers in each organization investigate instances where outside lectures are provided by public officials on a quarterly basis and report to the head of the organization.

The overall management of outside lectures will be strengthened; for example, if lectures are too closely related to the work of a public official, or a public official does lectures too frequently which interferes with the work, the head of his or her department will be reprimanded.

The recommendations also include imposing a penalty on public officials who violate the rule, such as by neglecting to report an outside lecture or receiving lecture compensation that exceeds the standard.

Further, the recommendations ask the public organizations to educate their employees about the obligation to report outside lectures in advance, the upper limit of the honorarium and the approval process of gaining approval for an outside lecture, and to establish a system for reporting outside lectures.