General civil servants who died while performing dangerous duties are registered as persons of merit without veterans affairs review.

Improvements are being made to the system so that general public officials other than those in the military, police, or fire department can be registered as persons of national merit without a separate veterans review process if they die while performing 'dangerous duties'.

The Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs announced on the 8th that it has announced the amendment to the 'Enforcement Decree of the Act on the Honorable Treatment and Support of Persons of National Merit, etc.' with these contents.

Previously, even if a general public official died on the job while performing dangerous duties such as hazardous material safety inspection or pest control training and was recognized by the Ministry of Personnel Management as a 'dangerous death in the line of duty', in order to be registered as a person of national merit, the person had to go through deliberation and resolution again by the Veterans Review Committee of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs.

However, once the amendment is implemented, general public officials who are recognized as dead in the line of duty will no longer undergo a separate veterans review, which will simplify the process of registering public officials who died in the line of duty as persons of national merit.

However, as in the case of a mechanic who died in the line of duty while riding a forest fire extinguishing helicopter, or a military instructor who died while performing a fighter jet flight training mission, only in cases where the Ministry of Personnel Management has recognized it as a 'dangerous job equivalent to that of a soldier, police officer, or fire fighter' and applied for review as a 'military police officer killed in the line of duty', it must be reviewed by the Veterans Affairs Review Committee.

The Ministry of Veterans Affairs plans to collect related opinions by the 17th of next month and then implement the amendment on February 28th of next year.

Minister of Veterans Affairs Kwon Oh-eul said of the amendment, "It is the government's will to significantly reduce the administrative and psychological burden on civil servants who died while performing dangerous duties and their bereaved families, and to provide prompt courtesy."