▒▒▒▒▒ Welcome to Korea Accreditation Board! ▒▒▒▒▒

  ○ 2010.   - The world's first Accreditation Cooperation Meeting among IAF major 9 signatories
  ○ 2007.    - Launched program for ISMS accreditation scheme
  ○ 2006.    - Recognized as supervision agency for national status of certification by MOCIE
  ○ 2006.    - Launched program for FSMS accreditation scheme
  ○ 2004.    - Joined IAF MLA for EMS
  ○ 2002.    - Launched K-OHSMS accreditation scheme
  ○ 2002.    - Recognized as TL 9000 accreditation body by the QuEST Forum
  ○ 2001.    - Renamed as KAB
  ○ 1999.    - Joined IAF MLA(Multilateral Recognition Arrangement) for QMS
  ○ 1997.    - Recognized as QMS accreditation body by MKE
  ○ 1996.    - Recognized as EMS accreditation body by MKE
  ○ 1996.    - Joined PAC and IATCA
  ○ 1996.    - Joined IAF
  ○ 1995.    - Established as Korea Certification Association for Quality & Environmental Management
                       (KCA) under the supervision of Korea Industrial Advancement Administration (KIAA)

Profile

Korea Accreditation Board (KAB) is established on September 28, 1995 in accordance with the government's policy of non-governmental operation for Quality and Environmental Management System certification. As a sole national accreditation body recognized by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy (MOCIE), KAB operates the accreditation programs of management systems certification bodies and of personnel certification bodies, equipped in a system that a third party, independent from organizations to be certified based on international standards, operates them. A company or person intended to be certified shall conform to certification criteria or standards required by the certification scheme concerned, while conformity assessment bodies, management system certification bodies and personnel certification bodies, shall be operated in objective, independent and impartial manner.

Management System Certification is that a third party, a conformity assessment body, objectively proves if the management system of an organization conforms to a certification standard that it subscribes, and in the same manner, a personnel certification body is that a third party, a personnel certification body, objectively proves if a person conforms to the defined certification standard.(eg certification criteria that a personnel certification body defined)

Also, KAB became signatories of the IAF MLA in 1999 for QMS and in 2003 for EMS after successful evaluation by a peer evaluation team, which made ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certificates accredited by KAB be recognized in the countries with being members of the IAF MLA. In addition, to meet market needs of the industry specific quality as well as other management system, KAB operates accreditation programs for TL 9000, K-OHSMS, ISMS, ISO 22000 etc with the support of Ministry of Knowledge Economy (previously the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy (MOCIE)).

KAB provides accreditation activities of accreditation and surveillance of certification bodies for management system and person, and carries out MLA activities for international recognition as well as other services for certification development such as research & development, dissemination and publication business. KAB's source of revenue is service charges from its own business. KAB's related bodies are Korean Agency for Technology & Standards, Ministry of Knowledge Economy and organizations that KAB outsourced to or made service contract with.