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  • Livestock Policy Division
  • This Division shall take charge of the following tasks.
    • 1. Management
      • a. Drawing up and executing a budget for the Livestock Bureau and closing accounts (excluding the fund)
      • b. The education and PR activities for livestock policies
      • c. Supervising the improvement of systems and the ease of regulations in the livestock sector
      • d. Operating and managing livestock-related councils
      • e. Operating and managing the livestock law and operating the livestock development and examination committee
      • f. The game of traditional bullfighting
      • g. General affairs of the Livestock Bureau and matters which are not covered by other domestic departments
    • 2. Livestock planning
      • a. Establishing and adjusting major business plans in the livestock sector
      • b. Establishing a basic plan for mid- and long-term livestock development
      • c. International trade in livestock
      • d. Supervising the businesses related to the demand and supply and export of livestock products
      • e. Supervising the businesses related to livestock consulting
    • 3. Livestock systems 1
      • a. Developing livestock technologies and managing national technology certificate system in the livestock sector
      • b. The direct payment system for environment-friendly livestock
    • 4. Livestock systems 2
      • a. Supervising the businesses related to the self-help monetary system for livestock
      • b. Other domestic animals than cow, pig, chicken and duck
      • c. Operating the law on the promotion of the consumption of livestock products
      • d. Operating the law to protect and foster Korean Jindo Dog
    • 5. The betterment of cattle breeds
      • a. The betterment of domestic animal and cattle breeds
      • b. Businesses related to inspection and registration of livestock
      • c. Managing livestock indexes including the observation of livestock, the statistics of domestic animals, and the production cost of livestock products
      • d. Livestock disaster relief measures
      • e. Managing genetic resources
    • 6. Livestock funds
      • a. Managing the operation of the livestock development fund
      • b. Supervising the improvement of livestock financial systems and the support for livestock policy funds
      • c. Examining and analyzing livestock projects
      • d. Businesses related to domestic animal mutual aid
    • 7. Businesses related to horse matters
      • a. The businesses of the Korea Racing Association
      • b. The fostering of racehorses
      • c. Operating special reserve funds
  • Livestock and Feed Management Division
  • This Division shall take charge of the following tasks.
    • 1. Korean beef cattle
      • a. Establishing and promoting plans to develop Korean beef cattle and beef cattle industries
      • b. Coming up with the measures to enhance the competitiveness of Korean beef cattle and beef cattle, and improving the management
      • c. Controling the demand and supply of Korean beef cattle and beef (including the import and export) and stabilizing their prices
      • d. Controling the import and export of live cows and beef and managing their distribution
      • e. Spreading the technologies to produce Korean beef cattle and beef cattle and fostering the managers of Korean beef cattle and beef cattle businesses
      • f. Promoting Korean beef cattle- and beef cattle-related businesses like those to stabilize the production of calves, and improving relevant systems
      • g. Operating and managing the self-help monetary system for Korean beef cattle
      • h. Operating the grassland law and forming and managing grassland
      • i. Producing crude feeds and using natural feed resources
      • j. Using rice straw and other domestic natural feed resources
      • k. Promoting the businesses related to the feeds made of unhulled rice and barley
      • l. Managing the import and export of crude feeds and conducting exterior negotiations
      • m. Fostering the beekeeping industry and managing the import and export
      • n. Directing and supervising Korean beef cattle- and beekeeping-related bodies
    • 2. Poultry raising
      • a. Establishing and promoting comprehensive measures for the poultry raising industry
      • b. Improving the quality of chicken and the management
      • c. Directing and supervising poultry raising-related bodies
      • d. Operating and managing the self-help monetary system for poultry raising
      • e. Controling the demand and supply of poultry products (including the import and export) and stabilizing their prices
      • f. Establishing the storage spaces for eggs and other facilities to distribute poultry products
      • g. Spreading the technologies to produce poultry products and improving relevant systems
      • h. Operating the poultry demand and supply adjustment committee
      • i. The fostering of the duck industry and the stability of the demand and supply
      • j. Supporting the export of poultry products
    • 3. Dairy 1
      • a. Establishing and promoting plans to develop the dairy industry
      • b. Operating the dairy promotion law and improving dairy systems
      • c. The demand and supply, prices, distribution and import and export of milk and milk products
    • 4. Dairy 2
      • a. Supporting the spread of dairy production technologies and the improvement of dairy management
      • b. Fostering the milk processing industry
      • c. The PR activities to increase the consumption of milk
      • d. Operating and managing the self-help monetary system for the dairy industry
      • e. Producing crude feeds and cultivating and using feed crops
      • f. Promoting the projects to make clean stock farms
    • 5. Livestock environment 1
      • a. Establishing and promoting a basic plan for disposing livestock excretions and turning them into resources
      • b. Promoting comprehensive measures to manage waters (Saemangeum, four largest rivers, non-point source pollutants, etc.)
      • c. Promoting the projects to support livestock excretions disposing facilities
      • d. Operating livestock excretions disposing facilities, inspecting their actual conditions, and executing follow-up management
      • e. Promoting the projects to improve the structure of local settlements
      • f. Promoting the projects to turning livestock excretions into liquid composts and improving the distribution system
      • g. Evaluating and spreading superior methods to dispose livestock excretions
      • h. Livestock instruments and equipment
    • 6. Livestock environment 2
      • a. Improving system to dispose livestock excretions and operating relevant laws and regulations
      • b. Managing and operating organic livestock products
      • c. Preparing and operating the criteria for certifying domestic organic livestock products
      • d. Buildings like stall and standard drawings
      • e. Improving the environment for raising domestic animals
      • f. Developing the methods and technologies to turning domestic animal excretions into resources
      • g. Providing consulting to improve livestock environment
  • Livestock Products Sanitation Division
  • This Division shall take charge of the following tasks.
    • 1. Hygiene systems
      • a. Operating the livestock products processing law
      • b. Operating hygiene systems like HACCP
      • c. International criteria for livestock foods including international food (Codex) standards
      • d. Operating the livestock products hygiene examination committee
      • e. Operating a grading system for livestock products
      • f. A system to sell livestock products by the grade and part of the meat
      • g. Directing and supervising livestock products grading centers
      • h. General affairs of the department
    • 2. Hygiene facilities
      • a. Establishing and promoting comprehensive measures for butchery and processing facilities
      • b. Constructing and operating LPC, wholesale markets and joint markets
      • c. Improving and operating the facilities in butchery and processing spaces
      • d. Improving the distribution of fragmented meat and chilled meat
      • e. Guiding and managing domestic animal markets
      • f. Distributing meat by-products
      • g. Regulating and supervising the unlawful distribution of livestock products
      • h. Directing and supervising the Korea Federation of Meat Purveyors
      • i. Directing and supervising the Korea livestock by-products central association
      • j. Other affairs related to hygiene facilities for livestock products
    • 3. Hygiene management
      • a. Establishing and promoting comprehensive measures to manage the hygiene of livestock products
      • b. Managing the hygiene of butchery places and livestock products processing spaces
      • c. Operating the guidelines to monitor the hygiene of livestock products
      • d. Promoting HACCP criteria in livestock products processing places
      • e. Informing of how to deal quickly with hygienic dangers of livestock products
      • f. Informing of how to identify microorganisms from meat
      • g. Informing of how to identify remaining substances from meat
      • h. Statistical businesses including the inspection of butchery
      • i. Hygienic management and inspection of raw milk
      • j. Projects to prevent garget
      • k. Businesses related to the processing, safekeeping, and transporting of livestock products
      • l. Directing and supervising the Korea Meat Industries Association and the Korea meat processors' cooperative federation
      • m. Directing and supervising the Korea livestock products hygienic processing association
      • n. Other affairs related to the hygienic management of livestock products
    • 4. The PR activities to increase the consumption
      • a. The traceability system for beef production
      • b. The system to label the country of origin in restaurants
      • c. Supervising the PR activities to promote the consumption of livestock products
      • d. Modernizing the facilities to sell livestock products
      • e. The labelling of the country of origin of livestock products
      • f. Encouraging direct trades to promote the consumption of livestock products
      • g. Investigating into the trend in the shipment and prices of livestock products
      • h. Guiding the consumer prices of livestock products
      • i. The establishment and management of meat stores (shops)
      • j. Analyzing the trend in the domestic and overseas distribution of livestock products
    • 5. Distribution
      • a. Establishing and promoting the measures to improve the distribution system for livestock products
      • b. Hammering out the measures to foster the brands of livestock products
      • c. Supporting the production and distribution of livestock products
      • d. Nurturing the manpower specializing in meat processing
      • e. Directing and supervising the Korean meat processing technicians' association
      • f. Other The distribution of livestock products
    • 6. Hog raising
      • a. Establishing and promoting plans to develop the hog raising industry
      • b. Establishing and promoting measures to control the demand and supply (including the import and export) of pork and stabilize its prices
      • c. Spreading the technologies to raise hog and improving relevant systems
      • d. Guiding and managing hog raising complexes and systematized enterprises
      • e. Promoting exterior businesses (including the opening of wholesale markets) like FTA and DDA
      • f. Establishing and promoting plans to promote a mandated self-help monetary system for hog raising
      • g. Directing and supervising the flesh and meat distribution and import and export association and the hog raising-related bodies
    • 7. Feeds
      • a. The fostering of the feeds industry
      • b. Taking measures to control the demand and supply of feeds and stabilize their prices
      • c. Businesses related to the quality management and inspection and stability of feeds
      • d. The registration and management of feed manufacturing businesses
      • e. Developing domestic and overseas feed resources and importing and exporting feeds
      • f. Operating the feed management law
      • g. Businesses related to feed processing specifications and genetrically modified feeds
      • h. Directing and supervising feed-related bodies
  • Animal Health Division
  • This Division shall take charge of the following tasks.
    • 1. Quarantine planning
      • a. Operating the veterinary law, the animal protection law and animal medicine-related laws and regulations
      • b. Veterinary's license
      • c. The management of animal medicines and animal hospitals
      • d. Directing and supervising the Korea Veterinary Medical Association and relevant associations
      • e. Guiding the businesses of the National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service
      • f. Laboratory animals
      • g. The public interest veterinarian system
    • 2. Quarantine 1
      • a. Comprehensive planning for quarantine measures
      • b. Establishing and promoting the measures to quarantine foot-and-mouth diseases
      • c. Conducting a medical check-up, serum test, and disease inspection of large domestic animals, testing and investigating them, and establishing and promoting quarantine measures
      • d. The payment of indemnities for the slaughter or sifting-out of domestic animals and to relevant systems
      • e. The operation of public veterinary judicial prosecutors
      • f. Operating the domestic animal quarantine measure committee
      • g. Operating the domestic animal infectious diseases prevention law
    • 3. Quarantine 2
      • a. Establishing and promoting the measures to quarantine pig cholera
      • b. Conducting a medical check-up, serum test, and disease inspection of middle-sized domestic animals, testing and
      • researching them, and establishing and promoting quarantine measures
      • c. The drawing up and execution of a budget for domestic animal quarantine
      • d. The activation, direction and supervision of private quarantine organizations
      • e. The management of the demand and supply of preventive medicines
      • f. Establishing and promoting the measures to prevent mad cow diseases
    • 4. Quarantine 3
      • a. Establishing and promoting the measures to quarantine chicken diseases like chicken newcastle
      • b. Conducting a medical check-up, serum test, and disease inspection of domestic cattle, testing and researching them, and establishing and promoting quarantine measures
      • c. The education and PR to quarantine domestic animals
      • d. The operation of domestic animal disease inspection organizations
      • e. The statistics of domestic animal infectious diseases
      • f. The management of diagnosis liquid and germ-poisoned liquor
      • g. The disinfection of stalls and stall-connected facilities
    • 5. Quarantine
      • a. The quarantine of imported and exported animal and livestock products
      • b. The businesses of the International Office of Epizootics
      • c. Establishing and revising the hygienic regulations of animal and livestock products
      • d. The gathering of information on the outbreaks of overseas domestic animal infectious diseases, the analysis of the trend and the diagnostic technologies
      • e. The operation of quarantine systems and the training in quarantine technologies (at home and abroad)
  • Audit & Inspection Division
  • The Division shall assist the auditing chief in connection with the following affairs.
    • 1. Audit planning
      • a. Plan and adjustment of auditing business
      • b. The operation of self-auditing organizations
      • c. Auditing the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation and its member organizations
      • d. General affairs in the auditing chief's room
    • 2. The prevention of corruption
      • a. Establishing, promoting and supervising plans to intensify the discipline of public offices and prevent corruption
      • b. Inspecting the discipline of affiliated organizations and bodies
      • c. Headquarters auditing and daily auditing
      • d. Investigating and treating petitions and irregularities including those presented by other ministries and agencies
      • e. The registration and examination of the properties of public officials, reports on gifts and limits to employment
    • 3. Audit 1
      • a. Integrating the materials to be audited by the Board of Audit and Inspection and doing liaison businesses
      • b. Supervising the work of the auditing information comprehensive system
      • c. Auditing local governments, including the government joint auditing
      • d. Dealing with the demands made by the Board of Audit and Inspection after its auditing
      • e. Auditing the National Agricultural Products Quality Management Service and the National Seed Management Office
    • 4. Audit 2
      • a. Auditing the National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service and the Agricultural training Institute
      • b. Auditing the Korea Racing Association
      • c. Auditing the Rural Development Administration and the Forestry Administration
    • 5. Audit 3
      • a. Auditing the National Plant Quarantine Service
      • b. Auditing the Agricultural and Fishery Marketing Corporation
      • c. Inspecting the Eulji Practice
    • 6. Audit 4
      • a. Auditing the corporations established in accordance with the civil law
      • b. Dealing with what the minister and/or vice-minister has ordered concerning auditing, including the actual conditions of agricultural and forestry affairs
      • c. Supervising and inspecting the actual conditions of civil petitions transmitted by the Office of the President and other civil petitions
    • 7. Audit 5
      • a. Auditing the Korea Agricultural and Rural Infrastructure Corporation
      • b. The auditing of agricultural and forestry technology development projects
      • c. The control of business trips
      • d. Administrative auditing and the operation of the audit request and deliberation conference