An employee in charge of attendance management at the Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine (KIOM) was fired after an audit found the person had arbitrarily edited commute records dozens of times to hide tardiness.
According to the institute's internal audit results released on the 22nd by the Ministry of Science and ICT's Government-funded research institute Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine (KIOM), employee A, who handled duty management, was found to have used authority to edit commute records to falsely change their own attendance records a total of 49 times from Oct. 2023 to Nov. last year.
The audit detected abnormal edit histories within the commute record system, and during verification it was found that A changed late arrivals to appear as on-time arrivals or edited the records to make the actual working hours look longer.
It was found that after arriving at work, several minutes elapsed before turning on the computer, logging into the system, and pressing the clock-in button, resulting in multiple tardies, and the department head asked A to pay attention to attendance management. As tardiness continued, A, worried about being reprimanded, appears to have manually altered the records to look like an on-time arrival.
In particular, it was found that even after moving to another department, A edited the records by taking advantage of remaining temporary privileges or by arbitrarily logging in with the administrator's ID.
The Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine (KIOM) said A often worked voluntary night shifts and was generally evaluated as diligent in performing duties, but the audit office judged there was strong intent given the repeated alterations of attendance records and recommended severe disciplinary action.
The Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine (KIOM) said that after reviewing the case, the audit disposition review committee decided to dismiss A.