Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries

The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, or MOMAF, was a cabinet-level division of the government of South Korea

Government of South Korea

The Government of South Korea is divided into executive, judicial, and legislative branches. The executive and judicial branches operate primarily at the national level, although various ministries in the executive branch also carry out local functions. Local governments are semi-autonomous, and...

. It oversees a variety of government offices, including the marine police. Various divisions of the ministry are concerned with the nation's ports, its maritime shipping, its fisheries, and its marine environmental policies.

MOMAF was established as part of a general cabinet reorganization in 1996. For the preceding 35 years, maritime functions had been divided among various departments. From 1955 to 1961, under the First Republic of South Korea

First Republic of South Korea

The First Republic of South Korea was South Korea's first independent government, ruling the country from 1948 to 1960. It succeeded USAMGIK, the United States military government, which ruled the area from 1945 to 1948. The First Republic was established on August 15, 1948, with Syngman Rhee as...

, a Ministry of Marine Affairs existed, and the current ministry traces its origin to that body.

In 2008, merging Ministry of Construction and Transportation and MOMAF, Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs

Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs

The Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs is a cabinet-level division of the government of South Korea. It has its headquarters in the 4th building of the Gwacheon Government Complex, in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi-do. As of 2011 Chung Jong-hwan is the minister.The ministry was originally the...

is established.

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