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What are the apparent research and methodological trends in the study of public administration in Korea and UK over the last five years? With this research purpose in mind, this article aims to apply Network Text Analysis Method, as an analytical tool, to the analysis of research trends in public administration in Korea and UK, to compare their recent academic tendencies and characteristics. In doing so, it analyzes 296 and 256 articles published by KAPA(Korean Association of Public Administration) and by Wiley-Blackwell (Public Administration), respectively, for five years ranging from 2005 to 2009. The research result shows that the research trends in the study of public administration of the two countries have similarities in some respects including methodology and main topics addressed. It also indicates that the Network Text Analysis can supplement insufficiencies and weaknesses of the existing method for research trend analysis in that it can derive key words used in the papers and key phrases relating to them as well, so that we could comprehend the relationships among key words and the characteristics of the phrases used.

This paper shows government responses to environmental problems whether the state will respond voluntarily or as a result of popular pressure in Japan. Japan’s pollution-related miracles and degradations, by their unique values and preferences, make one wonder what political processes and larger social structures made Japanese government yield different performances on domestic air and water pollution management, international deforestation and fishery environmental issues in terms of policy-making mechanism. We find that Japan’s strong economic development also brought them pollution problems which triggered small citizen groups to stand up against their government and cultural values. With help of mass‐media, they could mobilize the public to pressure and change the ironclad relations among the government, the LDP and business groups, who finally made a concession to the citizen groups and yielded productive environmental regulation policies. Unfortunately, those successful citizen movements, however, could not further develop into strong national organizations, which might have played a crucial role in international environmental issues. In this sense, the paper finds that even though the antipollution movement worked a miracle in the government’s concession, it wasn’t the result of the public aspire to fulfill higher aims. Rather it was the result of the public’s action to secure the basic needs. It is true that values and preferences change as the level of economic development changes, but it is not necessarily true that they will always shift to a higher level. Therefore, governance system needs to further development in environmental policy.

Recently the Korean society has experienced a severe conflict between the State and the local government concerning the main national policy. The French State long ago organized a network of institutions to control, through the presence of its agents and its supervision of local authorities, even the most remote area of its territory. Relations between the periphery and the centre are, therefore, inevitably set in very different contexts. They are particularly close in France, not only at the administrative level, but also in the political arena, where local elites are a breeding-ground for recruitment into national politics. By contrast, the links are less close in Korea, and the autonomy which prevails at the local level is built into the regionalism. This study tried to find a distinguishing mark between the periphery and the centre cooperation system by politico-administrative logics, and how these logics had application to this cooperation system. A further purpose is to describe the current and emerging factors of politico-administrative structure in France as the results of decentralization policy. This study found following six major headings: (1)the fundamental principles-unitary state, 'France one and indivisible'; (2)sphere of horizontal political relations; (3)sphere of vertical administrative relations; (4)the regulation intersected between the chief of local administration and the local council; (5)integration the power network; (6)activation the cooperation system among the local government.

While government was undergoing the social transformation of economic growth, population increase, it has also generated the increased number of people who may require certain assistance to adjust to such changes. In recent years, role-sharing between central and local government and it's impact on social welfare has started to be discussed and become one of crucial issues in Korea. As a result, local governments now have greater control over how much they spend and which welfare policy alternatives the spend it on. This study aims to empirical analysis that how to change social welfare expense expenditure under local environments influence. This study analyzed the relevant data for 9 years from 2000 through 2008, and analysis was carried out using Statistical Table analysis for the analysis method(that is, Prescriptive Methods). The study targeted 6 cities in Jeollabuk-Do(that is, Jeonju city, Gunsan city, Iksan city, Jeongeup city, Namwon city, Gimje city). The changes in social welfare expense expenditures are comprised of Demand for welfare indicators, financial indicators, political indicators. Research findings suggest several policy and practice implication. They are:  efficiency of welfare finance, efficiency of finance investment, strengthening of the local tax capacity, local tax reforms, take effective measures to declining population.

This study try to compare with public practical servants' role and the corruption structure in the local administration of Late Chosun Dynasty, Ch'ing Dynasty and Japan. It focused on 1) comparison local clerks' role, 2) political, economical environment induced on corruption of local administration, 3)nepotism and culture of corruption friendly, 4)salary, 5) organization structure and personnel administration system of local clerk, 6)openness and conflict structure of local clerks' group inner, 7) abuse of discretionary power, control and response. Because local bureaucrats had no experience in their practical administration and were frequently changed by avoiding their natives, dismissal and resignation, they didn't know the condition of their post and the customs of local communities well and couldn't control local clerks' corruption. Local clerks were responsible for a host of duties related to the actual local administration including the collection of tax. However, there was no official salary system for these petty clerks. I found that the higher the power distance, the collectivism, and the level of uncertainty avoidance, the higher the level of corruption. These facts show that nepotism culture functions a corruption-inducing factor. We should attend to the newly emerging civil movement trying to realize participatory democracy, transparency, administrative ethics on the level of local administration.

The current strong interest in English education leads to a lot of economic and social problems. Example is a number of students studying abroad, high rates of private education cost and social separation by the level of English education. To prevent these problem, English-village have been run since 2004. While this kind of English-village widely creates positive effects in educational and social aspects, it also causes negative ones, such as a high cost but low efficiency of education. The purpose of this study is, therefore, to examine the overall status of English-villages that are currently being run in Korea. Through these research purposes we can look into the implications that can be applied to the Korean english-village, and further more propose a Korean english-village model which is modified from that of the advanced states system. The results are as follows. First, in terms of legal and executive aspects, English-village law and English-village regulation need to be enacted. And English-village Instructor's qualification criteria should be prepared. Secondly, in regards to facility factors, the scale and name of English-village should be used within exactly set limits. The leisure complex level of English village or a small English village of academy size may have to be avoided. Some villages that do not meet the conditions of English village for use of its name should be regulated. Thirdly, teacher training and retraining in English village, which are created for the program and volunteer staff and teachers, need to be explored in ways to take advantage. Fourth, since English village has been established for the purpose of substituting public education, overly low-charged admission fees should be appropriated in relation to actual needs.

This study is trying to find out the spatial econometrics model in order to reflect the true reality in the housing price analysis. Due to the influence of spatial autocorrelation with respects to the housing price in the housing market, the estimation of the OLS is not preferable. Then the spatial econometrics model reflecting spatial dependence and spatial heterogeneity is the best alternative in terms of housing price estimation, probably. "Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things". More realistic spatial weight matrix and spatial model scheme, better performance in the housing price prediction. Therefore, this study can show that the model improvement by spatial model scheme can be achieved by the comparing the spatial econometrics models such as SAR(Spatial Autoregressive Models), SEM(Spatial Errors Models), SAC(General Spatial Models), and GWR(Geographically Weighted Regression). Depends on the perspective of methodology, the SAC and the GWR models are preferable in terms of global(nomothetic approach) or local(idiographic approach) point of view, respectively.

This study primarily aims at divulging knowledge network characteristics of Medical-Bio-Pharmaceutical Industry (MBPI), as one of two regional strategic industries in Chungcheong Region which encompasses Daejeon, Chungbuk, and Chungnam. It depends on the social network analysis (SNA) methods as analytical tools, applying NetMiner 3.0 program. Major findings are as follows. First of all, compared with of Daejeon and Chungbuk cases, Chungnam’s MBPI knowledge network relatively remains behind all alone. Secondly, reflecting spatial distribution of participating organizations, the largest volume comes from the Capital-based organizations. In addition, the individual MBPI network patterns from Daejeon, Chungbuk, and Chungnam present the similar trends. These results imply that the Capital Region, ceteris paribus, may exert the most significant impact on the future development of MBPI knowledge network in Chungcheong Region. Thirdly, applying the concept of degree centrality, universities in Daejeon function as the most powerful organizations. In contrast, both industrial sectors and universities in Chungbuk and Chungnam role as the two key pillars in knowledge network building.

It is true that Korea has never officially classified which public institution should deal with which emergency, via a national framework. This article aims at encouraging Korea to adopt newly proposed "the National Response Framework (NRF)" for the ultimate purpose of contributing to the goal of emergency management such as reducing human loss, economic damages, and psychological impacts. To do so, the article has carefully and systematically examined the related implications as well as the existing problems after sequently comparing three major subjects to include the U.S. NRF, Japan's Disaster Management Plan, and Korea's Basic Plan on National Safety Management. The article has proposed how to improve Korea's Basic Plan on National Safety Management as a key finding, while elaborating on the general improvement direction, governments and their policy, NGOs and their strategy, the establishment of coordination network, and the revision of related laws. In short, this paper has emphasized that Korea should make efforts to radically transform its Basic Plan on National Safety Management into advanced NRF.

This study is focused on the comparative analysis of administrative reform of Youngsam Kim' / Daejung Kim's / Muhyeon Ro‘s Government. 1)As a goal of administrative reform, YS's Government focused on the small and strong Government, DJ''s-on the overcome of the IMF Economic Crisis, Ro's -on the regional equal development. 2)As a motivation of administrative reform, YS's Government transferred Military Government into People Government, DJ's-the regime transformation from the governing party to the party out of power, Ro’s-the power transformation from the Kim's ruling party to the Ro‘s ruling party. 3)as a manager of administrative reform, YS's Government wais the council of administrative renovation, DJ's-the council of planning budget, Ro’s-the council of government innovation decentralization of power. 4)As a scope of administrative reform, YS's Government emphasized on the structure reform centering for organizational change, DJ's -on the public, enterprise, financial banking, and labor, Ro‘s-on the more right sizing reform than down sizing reform. 5)As a characteristic of administrative reform, three governments picked up all the harmony reform of bottom up and top down. 6)As a performance of administrative reform, YS's Government got to the real-name accounting system and the registration of the public officel property, DJ's-gain to the public sector reform and the overcoming of foreign exchange crisis, Ro’s-to the many sides evaluation and the formation of high ranking officials corporation. 7)As a implication of administrative reform, YS's Government had the transparency of public administration and globalization, DJ's-the privatization of public enterprise and the structure adjustment of Jaebal Company, Ro‘s- the change and reform centering for more software than hardware.

The purpose of this study is to find out the Success Factors of Invite Domestic Enterprise by Local Governments through the analysis of Hyundai Heavy Industry Case. The Factors that influence the Invite Enterprise are Location, Incentives of administration and finance, the Will of Head ship of Local Autonomy Government and the Role of Civil Servants. This study analyze major four Locational factors - Capital, Land, Labor, Transport and Communication, - Industrial Policy of Government and Agglomeration economies, - Incentives of administration and finance, - Will of Head ship of Local Autonomy Government and the Role of Civil Servants. The result of analysis show that all the indicated factors are influential in Inviting Domestic Enterprise. And the result also reveals that the most important factors of Inviting the Domestic Enterprise is the Will of Head ship of Local Autonomy Government. Those who - the Head ship of Local Government - is how active and have a strong Will to Invite Domestic Enterprise is the most important factor. It is the meaningful finding of this study.

This study aims to reveal how stress caused by adapting into new culture influences the psychological well-being by reviewing meditation and moderation effects of their psychosocial resources by surveying 324 women who migrated for marriage from China, Vietnam, Philippines, and Japan living in 12 cities and provinces in Chungcheongbukdo. First, the introduction stated the necessity and purpose of the research. Second, I defined women who migrated for marriage, stress from adapting to a new culture, and psychosocial resources and provided the basis to set up researchable variables and models, followed by the research methods and offered the key analysis results. In conclusion, I provided policy-wise and practical suggestions based on the analysis. The study is significant in that women who migrated for marriage should adapt themselves to changes arising from migration and try to lead stable lives, while local communities should embrace them as neighbors and provide various resources for their psychological well-being.

This paper attempts to find out any path-dependence tendencies of local government system restructuring policies. The scope of analysis includes local government system change in three dimensions: (1) the vertical tier of governments; (2) the area (jurisdiction) of local administration; and (3) allocation of authority, tasks, and function among national government, sub-national governments. We found that there was a strong path-dependence tendencies in local government reorganization policies, like many other Korean public institutions. The path dependence has been coupled with self-reinforcing mechanism by institutional inertia and conservative key policy makers, even since 1995, a critical juncture, when the local autonomy system has been introduced. The Korean local government system has basically maintained two-tier system. The only exception is the Jeju (island) special province, and experienced the city-county consolidation without significant devolution to lower tiers of sub-national governments. Based on our findings, we hypothesize that any future reorganization efforts of local government system will also go through the path-dependence found earlier, unless there are punctual political and social changes, such as, constitutional revision or leadership transformation.

This research was aimed at empirically verifying the effects of the depression and self-effectiveness of university students on their personal relationship and examining the medium effect of appearance satisfaction in those casual relationships. To achieve such goals, this research set the following research problems. First, are the depression, self-effectiveness, appearance satisfaction, and personal relationship trends of university students different according to the demographic characteristics? Second, is there any correlation among the depression, self-effectiveness, appearance satisfaction, and personal relationship trends of university students? Third, what effects do the depression, self-effectiveness, and appearance satisfaction of university students on their personal relationship trends? Fourth, does appearance satisfaction have the medium effect in the relationship between the depression and self-effectiveness and their personal relationship trends? For those problems, a questionnaire survey was conducted for 600 university students living in Seoul, Chungcheongnam-do, and Jeollabuk-do, and while 591 questionnaires were collected, a total of 572 questionnaires were finally used to analyze data after excluding unfaithful and unmarked questionnaires. By using PASW statistics 18.0 and AMOS 16.0 statistics analysis program, t and F verification, the correlation analysis, and the multiple regression analysis were conducted for data.

Saemaul Undong has been a developmental model for developing countries. Indeed, many countries in Africa and Southeast Asia including China have adopted and implemented it as a model of national development. For successful development, Saemaul Undong newly attracting a great attention should meet the demands of the times and society. Furthermore, it should lead a change of the times. It is asked for a model of Saemaul Undong to be modified to be applicable to the 21 century. However, Saemaul Undong of Daegu-Gyeongbuk regions faces several challenges, which include that it does not fit into diversified society, the linkage and cooperation among related organizations are not sufficient, and it's outcomes has not be reflected in the policies. The purposes of this study are to review the value of the Saemaul Undong, to analyze the characteristics of Saemaul Undong of Daegu-Gyeongbuk regions, to present the direction of Saemaul Undong, and to fomulate plans that contribute to the national development. To achieve these goals, it is needed to impel a national branding of global Saemaul Undong, to politicize the practice of Saemaul spirit and to take Saemaul Undong as a means of nation's advancement. In addition, the studies and institutional education of Saemaul Undong, and a systemic training of Saemaul leaders should be promoted. The laws of Saemaul Undong should be improved to establish it's infrastructure development.

The purpose of this study is to empirically examine correlation between the centralization of capital region and the regional disparity. Thus, this study analyzed correlation between the centralization of capital region and the regional disparity in terms of the status, changes, and canonical correlation analysis of the capital region centralization and the regional disparity. And, for this study, DB about 9 dimensions(population, economy, industry, money, urban infra, healthy and welfare, education, local public finance, and decision making) and 32 variables was built. In addition, analysis DB was divided into 1995, 2000, 2005, and 2007. The main results of the study are as follows. First, Korea's centralization of capital region is very high. In particular, centralization of capital region is very high in terms of population, economy, industry, money, and decision making. Also, the dimension with high centralization of capital region shows higher centralization with time. Second, Korea shows regional disparity in terms of population, economy, industry, money, local public finance, and decision making. Also, the high dimension of regional disparity shows higher regional disparity. Third, according to change in the centralization of the capital region and the regional disparity, the dimensions with higher centralization of the capital region show higher regional disparity. In addition, local public finance and decision making newly show increase in the centralization of the capital region and the regional disparity. Fourth, the centralization of the capital region and the regional disparity has significant positive correlation. According to canonical correlation analysis, the higher centralization of the capital region is, the higher regional disparity probably becomes. However, correlation between the centralization of the capital region and the regional disparity is lower during 1995-2007.