Office for Government Policy Coordination

Office for Government Policy Coordination

국무조정실 國務調整室 Gungmu Jojeong-sil
OPC headquarters in Sejong
Agency overview
Formed	23 March 2013 (2013-03-23)
Jurisdiction	Government of South Korea
Headquarters	Sejong, South Korea
Minister responsible	Bang Ki-sun
Deputy Ministers responsible	Park Gu-yeon Lee Jeong-won
Parent department	Prime Minister of South Korea
Child agencies	Tax Tribunal National Counter-Terrorism Center Office for International Development Cooperation
Website	http://www.opm.go.kr/en/index.do

The Office for Government Policy Coordination (Korean: 국무조정실; Hanja: 國務調整室), OPC in short, is a government agency of South Korea consisting Prime Minister's Office with Prime Minister's Secretariat (PMS). It is led by a ministerial-level Minister for Government Policy Coordination unlike Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister who leads PMS and serves at a vice-ministerial level. The OPC Minister chairs the Vice Ministers' Council (Korean: 차관회의)^[1] which supports State Council which is composed of ministers and led by the President and often Prime Minister. Moreover, the OPC Minister is supported by two vice-ministerial Vice Ministers.

It was the first government agency to move its headquarters to Sejong in 2012.^[2]

It has Tax Tribunal and National Counter-Terrorism Center as its child agencies. It also oversees many government-funded research institutes, which mostly reside in Sejong, including Korea Development Institute and OECD Korea Policy Center.