Responsible ministries for LMOs: MOTIE (for industrial use), MSIT (for testing and research), MAFRA (for agricultural, forestry and livestock use), MOHW (for healthcare), MOF (for marine and fisheries), ME (for environmental cleanup), and MFDS (for food and medical devices)

ㅇ Strengthen LMO safety management and monitoring. For starters, develop LMO risk assessment and safety management guidelines* for each ministry. In addition, conduct regular safety inspections of LMO research facilities once a year and promote the operation of the Institutional Biosafety Committees (IBCs) while performing inspections on all LMO testing and research facilities and providing customized on-site safety management consulting to 20 institutions every year. Moreover, increase the number of LMO natural environment monitoring sites to 1,200 by 2026, expanding the scope of investigation of the impacts of LMOs on natural ecosystems. Finally, establish a safety management and monitoring system for each stage of handling LMOs (i.e. importation, production and use of LMOs) when granting approval.

Year	MOTIE	MISIT	MAFRA	ME
2023	1	2	1	-
2024	1	2	1	2
2025	1	1	1	2
2026	1	1	1	2
2027	1	1	1	2

ㅇ Recognize the internationally accredited new KOLAS (Korea Laboratory Accreditation Scheme) test reports* and renew the report every three years to increase reliability. In addition, enable the ME to facilitate the localization of relevant technologies by ensuring that the ministry maintains LMO detection technologies as 100% internal.
* Cumulative number of KOLAS test reports recognized

Year	MAFRA	ME
2023	1	1
2024	4	1
2025	4	1
2026	4	1
2027	5	1

ㅇ Improve and revise the Transboundary Movement of Living Modified Organisms Act and related joint notifications at least once a year to clarify the purposes of LMO use and the roles of competent ministries and local governments.

ㅇ Proceed with necessary work, step by step, to discuss ratification of the Nagoya–Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress in 2026.

ㅇ Involve domestic experts in online forums, multidisciplinary Ad Hoc Technical Expert Groups (MTEGs), the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) and other forums operated by the CBD and the Cartagena Protocol related to synthetic biology from 2024, and monitor their trends.

ㅇ Identify global R&D and commercialization trends for organisms developed with emerging biotechnologies and their products and promote research and systems related to domestic safety management measures from 2024.

ㅇ Develop technologies to respond to the safety management of emerging biotechnologies such as risk assessment technologies and detection techniques* for LMOs containing products derived from biotechnology, agricultural product risk assessment technologies using genomic big data and equivalence test technologies based on crop content analyses.
* Number of risk assessment evaluation technolog

Year	MAFRA	ME	MOF
2023	-	4	-
2024	-	4	-
2025	-	4	1
2026	1	4	-
2027	-	4	-

ㅇ Facilitate the operation of biosafety portals operated by relevant ministries to provide customized information on LMOs to users and support two-way communication including citizen engagement.

Year	Relevant portals
MOTIE	Korea Biosafety Clearing House (www.biosafety.or.kr) - Upload 50 pieces of information to the GMO portal every year, increasing the number of registered information from 900 in 2023 to 1,150 in 2028.
MSIT	LMO Information System (www.lmosafety.or.kr/tool)
MAFRA	LMOs for agriculture and forestry (www.naas.go.kr)
ME	LMO-related information system (lesc.nie.re.kr)
MOF	LMO clearing house to be established in 2026

ㅇ Strengthen the public's right to know by publicizing biosafety-related risk assessment information and the results of meetings between ministries responsible for safety management via various communication channels such as the biennial public awareness surveys, social networking sites and YouTube, while bolstering biosafety awareness training* for a wide range of stakeholders.
* Number of trainings designed to raise awareness of biosafety
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Year	No. of biosafety trainings
2023	87
2024	133
2025	133
2026	149
2027	150

ㅇ Conduct joint investigations* involving civil society organizations in environmental monitoring activities targeting companies that handle LMOs, unauthorized LMO sites and natural ecosystems.
* Number of joint investigations involving civil society organizations

Year	MAFRA	ME
2023-2026	3	3
2027-6	3	5

ㅇ Expand participatory safety management programs such as public competitions and cyber watchdogs for illegal distribution* . Review the criteria and methods for public input on the LMO approval process and amend the Transboundary Movement of Living Modified Organisms Act where necessary.
* Number of participatory safety management programs

Year	MISIT	MOF
2023	3	-
2024	3	1