http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20211203-212252-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/restoring-public-trust/ Restoring Public Trust - The Case of South Korea’s Corruption Investigation Office (CIO) Domning, Gwendolyn eng 2021-12-03 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 anti-corruption Corruption Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Slipping in and out of the academic spotlight, the topic of corruption has persistently raised the interest of scholars, international organizations, and societies all over the world since the 1990s. I focus on the Republic of Korea’s (ROK) establishment of a new anti-corruption agency, the Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials (CIO), and argue that the CIO provides new anti-corruption ‘services’ on the one hand and strengthens state accountability mechanisms on the other.