The guidelines cover Art.13 of KGS operation rules to set the committee's activities and to enhance the efficiency of committee's operation

In principle, the activities bring a better understanding of the state-of-the-art technology in the field of geotechnical engineering through discussion, presentation, site-inspection and joint research.

KGS has the following 16 committees established to operate

The committee builds a basic working structure by appointing the chairperson, managers and if needed, the committee runs the sub-operating committee

• The president appoints the chairperson nominated by the committee
• The chairperson appoints managers of the committee
• The chairperson's term of service is 2 years and can not be re-elected. If the chairperson takes over in the middle of the ex-president's term, after the end of the term, the chairperson can be re-elected
• The committee asks the president to nominate candidates by the end of Feb.,the election year
• Candidates for presidency of the committee can be elected by the majority of its members or 20 members present at a meeting

The committee members are composed of the following rules

• KGS members are entitled to apply to the committee
• New members are able to join less than 4 separate committees any time and the existing members re-submit an application to extend as a member of the committee by the end of Dec. every year

Three ways to take operation expenses

• KGS on its own supports part of the expenses
• Events hosted by KGS support the expenses with admission fees
• The committee submits details of the expenses to KGS and then KGS comes in to take full care of the expenses

The committee holds the following activities

• The committee opens a discussion, seminar, conference, site-inspection, joint research among members and by the end of every Dec., presents a business plan for next year and once the business plan gets through a strict examination, the plan takes effect next year
• In advance, at least 3 months ago, managing directors and the committee check business plans together to avoid having the same items of the plan
• The committee has control over publishing the collections of papers but the academic managing director and the committee pre-arrange a meeting to discuss if the collections violate the format of presenting papers
• To establish and operate the committee advisor's meeting

Additional case

Additional rules

• The rules take effect after Jan. 29, 1996- Sub section3
• The rules take effect after May 23, 2005- Sub section3
• The rules take effect after Dec. 28, 2007- Sub section3
• The rules take effect after Apr. 21, 2008- Sub section3
• The rules take effect after Apr. 10, 2009- Sub section3
• The rules take effect after Apr. 10, 2009- Sub section5(Art.2)