A Study on The Public Announcement Status of Sustainability Management Information and Measures to Increase Usability for Regional Public Corporation

[Purpose] As the importance of ESG information grows around the world, the government announced the “ESG Infrastructure Expansion Plan” in 2021 years to spread ESG management and promoted public institutions to lead ESG management, this study checks the status of regional public corporation’ issuance of sustainability management reports and makes suggestions for increasing the usability of sustainability management information, at a time when the issuance of sustainability management report by general private companies and national public institutions is becoming mandatory in stages. [Methodology] This study directly checked the status of public announcement of sustainability management reports on each regional public corporation’s homepages. Then, this study collected regional public corporation’s data(asset, debt, capital, budget, and labor force) in Clean Eye(Regional Public Corporation Management Informantion Announcement System) and analyzed them. We also conducted comparative analysis to verify the difference between regional public corporations that issued sustainability management reports and companies that did not issue them. [Findings] Among 164 regional public corporations, there are nine regional public corporations (5.48%) issuing sustainability management reports. If we included regional public corporations issuing similar reports, there are nineteen regional public corporations (11.59%) issuing sustainability management report. As a result of comparative analysis that the differences between regional public corporations that have issued sustainability management reports and those that have not, this study shows that there was a statistically significant positive (＋) difference in the average of assets, capital, and budget sizes at the 10%, 5%, and 10% levels, respectively. [Implications] To improve the usability of regional public corporation’s sustainability management information, some suggestions are as follow. First, regional public corporation integrated management announcement system should be reorganized. We should need to sustainable discuss to provide more useful information, such as reorganizing the integrated management announcement system of regional public corporation and reflecting it on the Clean Eye website. Second, the issuance of sustainability management reports should be made mandatory in stages. The research results show that there are differences in the scale of assets, capital, and budget between regional public corporations that currently issue sustainable management reports and those that do not. Considering these two suggestions, we need to establish standards and make it mandatory for regional public corporations that meet the standards to issue sustainability management reports in stages.