The Ministry of the Interior and Safety said on the 27th that it revamped the press release board on its website so the public can check the full text of press releases directly on the web.
Until now, Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS) press releases were mainly provided as attached files in Hangul Word Processor (hwp) or PDF format. In mobile environments such as smartphones, it was difficult to view the text directly, and in many cases a separate read-only viewer program was required to read the press releases. In particular, there were criticisms that there were limits in terms of accessibility for assistive technologies for people with disabilities, such as screen readers for the visually impaired.
In response, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS) revamped the service so the entire contents of press releases can be viewed without installing separate programs.
During the revamp, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS) added a download function in the "Markdown" format, which is easy for people as well as artificial intelligence (AI) to understand.
Markdown is a method in which the structure of writing—such as titles, body text, and lists—is expressed consistently and clearly. It is considered optimized for search engines and AI services to systematically collect and learn data.
It is widely used across various platforms such as Wikipedia, Notion, and GitHub, and is also applied to the answer formats of commercial AI services such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
Spokesperson Cho Young-jin of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS) said, "We will work to ensure that anyone can easily access MOIS policies through communication and outreach that meet the public's expectations."