The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission has decided to raise the upper price limit of gifts that public employees can give and receive during the Lunar New Year holidays and Chuseok from 200-thousand won to 300-thousand won, or around 220 U.S. dollars. 

The commission announced on Monday that it passed revisions to enforcement ordinance under the anti-corruption Kim Young-ran Act during a meeting in Sejong City. 

The latest move comes a year and a half after the upper price limit for such holiday gifts was marked up from 100-thousand won to 200-thousand.

Gifts within the price range will be allowed to be given starting from 24 days prior to Lunar New Year’s Day and Chuseok to five days after the two holidays. 

The commission also decided to include online mobile gift cards and tickets for cultural events within the scope of gifts that fall under the Kim Young-ran Act.

The ordinance will go into effect after a Cabinet meeting.