The government has embarked on a mission to improve the Good Software (GS) assurance system in earnest with the convening of the first taskforce meeting on July 27. For some time, there had been complaints that, even though GS assurance system had made contributions to improving the qualities of domestic software, it had failed to be an effective tool in drawing distinctions between GS accredited products, and there were calls for the number of target items to be expanded. Accordingly, the government plans to devise measures that can drastically improve the GS system. To this end, the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) launched on July 27 a taskforce comprised of eight experts from related agencies and businesses. The ministry said that it plans to shift the GS system to one that can also differentiate the qualities of software that belong to a same grade in the GS system. "In view of the fact that there have been criticisms that GS system does not make relative appraisals on qualities," an MIC official said, "the government plans to implement a new GS system starting from next year after listening to the general opinions of both the suppliers and consumers in the software market." In the meantime, the government plans to gradually expand the software fields to be covered by the GS system to digital contents, telematics, home networks, biometrics, and intellectual robots.