President Kim Sung-arm of KEPCO E&C poses with KEPCO E&C executives after he took office as the 21st president of the company at KEPCO E&C headquarters in Gimcheon, Gyeongsangbuk-do. (Photos: KEPCO E&C)

President Kim Sung-arm of KEPCO E&C

Kim Sung-arm, senior executive vice president in charge of power grid at Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO), took office as the 21st present of KEPCO E&C.

In his inaugural speech, President Kim disclosed his determination to “ramp up growth engines based on core capabilities, advance its management system and make KEPCO E&C a company filled with a sense of pride and dynamics with global expertise and technology power.”

The inauguration ceremony was streamed online from the International Seminar Room of KEPCO E&C headquarters on May 7.

President Kim suggested plans to diversify growth engines based on its core capabilities, enter the overseas markets through accumulated experiences and technologies and expand renewable energy and digital transformation projects.

Kim spoke of his scheme to advance his management system so that it can cope with environmental changes and crises in an elastic and proactive fashion.

The plan also involves making KEPCO E&C a sustainable company capable of harmonizing profitability and public interest through ESG management, on top of financial achievements of valued added businesses in consideration of its corporate characteristics.

Stressing manpower, a precious asset for KEPCO E&C, President Kim said he would double down on efforts to build a manpower development system with a greater competitive edge.

Kim pledged to establish a corporate culture filled with a sense of pride and dynamics, based on all staffers’ understanding and sympathizing, and stressed communications management to lend an ear to vivid on-site voices.

Last but not least, he urged his executives and staffers to spearhead competitiveness, and command the global market in the top-tier of the energy industry ecosystem, in which KEPCO E&C is situated, by making a crisis into an opportunity.

KEPCO E&C President Kim, a native of Jeju Island, graduated from Namju High School and Hongik University Electric Engineering Department.

He held major positions such as the head of KEPCO’s transmission, transformation and construction division and chief of the Gyeongnam regional headquarters after he entered KEPCO in 1985.

He had been credited with the development of the electric industry and infrastructure buildup through energy paradigm shift and digital transformation while serving as the head of KEPCO’s power grid division between 2019 and February 2021.

KEPCO E&C Designated as ‘Excellent Labor-Management Relations Company’

KEPCO E&C was designated as an “excellent labor-management relations company” by the Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL).

The labor-management relations certification, hosted by MOEL, made its debut in 1996.

The system is designed to designate and certify companies which exemplify themselves in putting into practice cooperative labor-management relations and shared growth.

A total of 106 worksites applied for the certification system this year.

Excellent labor-management relations companies had been designated over after applicants were evaluated in six categories, including open management and labor’s participation, and adequacy of wages and efforts to reduce discrepancy, over an initial written screening and second contest.

Excellent labor-management relations companies are exempted from regular labor surveillance for three years and a preferential treatment in exemplary taxpayers.