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This study aims to clarify the functions of the French National Commission for Public Debate (Commission Nationale du Débat Public) to find out possible lessons for a near introduction of the same institution in Korea. It is highly possible that the French system is susceptible to cast some lessons for Korean public decision-making process. This study examined and reconstituted the itinerary of French National Commission for Public Debate and finally drew five major perspectives to be conceived to rationalize Korean public administration's deicision-making process and to invigorate public debates for preventing increasing public conflicts in a policy process.

Recently, it is perceived the demand of change in rental housing market by way of low interest rate, low birth rate, and rapid aging, which has not been experienced in the past decades. It is pointed out the increase of housing costs of the ordinary people as the one of factors to the demand of change in rental housing market. Accordingly, it is very important to understand the preference on the Jeonse(the lease of a house on a deposit basis) and monthly payment housing in order to have an establishment of proper housing policy for the settlement of the ordinary people. The study is trying to investigate the preference structure on the Jeonse and/or monthly payment housing to the landlord and leaseholder in rental housing market. We conduct the survey to the current landlords and leaseholders in Seoul and Busan areas. The result of analysis is that the changing rate of Jeonse to monthly payment housing is reflected the risk premium. Also, the Jeonse is prefer to the monthly payment housing as far as the housing satisfaction is concerned. In addition, the Jeonse is revealed the function of capital accumulation for the preparing one’s own house. The preference of monthly payment housing as a view of landlords is expected to continue when it comes to keep the low interest rate.

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 assessed the factors affecting why the poor households social welfare services in a municipal area by analyzing some data from the 2010 Seoul Welfare Panel Survey Data. As a result, in Seoul, there was a marked contrast between the north Han River and south Han River areas in using the welfare services. In particular, it was found that there are more public assistances in social welfare services in the south Han River area than in the north. In addition, disability, age, education level, health status, income, employment status, marital status showed a statistical significance. The effect factors are as follow : first, the Seoul metropolitan government needs improvements in its policies for welfare services to narrow the gap between areas. Second, the social services for poor households should be more accessible. Finally, the policies for care and support for the elderly in the households should be improved.

In this study, we would like to stress that child-care is the most important factor in the child-welfare and the society should make a solution regarding it, due to women’s social participation and the trend towards to the nuclear family. The number of child-care centre in our society is important, but quality of child care centre is even more important. To make a cooperative, co-parenting, and cooperative-coparenting successful, the social awareness change that the most important values in our society are not competition, efficiency, globalization, technology, but co-operation, co-habitation, environment are being asked for. To make it happen, the education regarding a cooperative and a coparenting should get diversified and activated. Therefore I will first start with the switch from national child-care system to cooperative child-care system and follow with the diversified support methods to induce the switch from private child-care to cooperative child-care, and finally end with how we support communitarian child-care system. In this thesis, cooperative child-care will be treated as the alternative and solution to the present child-care situation and the points regarding its positiveness and its uses will be made strongly. Although there will be possible limitations of co-operative system, this thesis tries to illustrate the advantages of cooperative child-care and the methods to improve its system. The result of this study can be used for strengthening cooperative’s credit.

The regulatory body must be structured in such a way as to ensure that it is capable of discharging its responsibilities and carrying out its functions independently, effectively and efficiently. One of the most important attributes of a regulatory body is its independence from interference in its regulatory functions. This idea has been developed in a number of IAEA documents and in relevant international conventions. The requirements are reviewed in this paper relate to the organization of the regulatory body: its structure, allocation of resources, coordination with other governmental authorities, management system, staffing, and relationship with advisory bodies under the IAEA laws. This paper is also analyzed general requirements for performing the functions of the regulatory body to preserve the consistency and stability of operations and constructive liaison with authorized parties, comparing the IAEA laws and Korean laws of nuclear safety. As a result, key point was derived. That is the regulatory body shall perform its functions in a manner that does not compromise its effective independence. And legal policy of supplementation is proposed in this article.

The purpose of this paper is to analyse public conflict around Busan International Film Festival through institutional frame analysis. The findings are as follows. Firstly, Busan International Film Festival has been successfully performed for 20 years, and BIFF-related actors could reach an agreement in terms of internal-situational conditions based on the attributes of the collaborative team affecting the structure of the action arena. Secondly, the internal governance and intervention style of mayor of Busan city aggravated conflicts and antagonism among the film-relators, so they boycotted 21st Busan International Film Festival. Thirdly, the frame conflict between Busan city and film-relators made disagreements and conflicts more deepened. Lastly, they succeeded in building the consensus through compromise and negotiation with authentic discourse, some mediation and litigation. So we realized that the revision of the dependent and untransparent game rules about Busan International Film Festival, and the introduction of the independent steering committee of Busan International Film Festival made possible consensus-building. Above all, conflict-related actors could have reached the consensus because they all deeply shared the interest and performance of BIFF. We suggest that compromise and negotiation based on authentic discourse be needed in public conflict resolution, comparing arbitration and litigation asking for long time and much transaction cost.

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.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the renaissance strategies of urban village in Busan metropolitan city. The four renaissance strategies for creating Gamcheon Culture Village are composed of comprehensive-collaborative strategy, community-based collaborative strategy, strategic incrementalism and independent-experimental strategy which are based on co-operationism and incrementalism. The findings are as follows. First, comprehensive-collaborative strategies were applied to almost every policy stage by the operational commission for urban village creation. Second, community-based collaborative strategies were also applied through residential participation and self-governing. Third, professional artists and public bureaucracy led cultural renaissance through setting up public art works and infrastructure from the viewpoint of strategic incrementalism. Fourth, the independent-experimental strategies based on redundancy concept were highly adequate to cultural renaissance and creation because the role of the leaders and flowers, the community situations, and the developing contexts were very different from other urban villages. Above all, I suggest that the consistent cooperation among cultural artists, public bureaucracy and residents be needed for creating culture village.

In this study reviews the industrial society in the country emerged as an important policy challenge work-family balance policies that changes in the welfare states of Esping-Anderson types, classified as focusing on countries were investigated. As the late industrial society, the welfare state occurred in the process of implementing a new social risks in order to respond to local conditions and experience of social policy is the maintenance. Child care policy in particular, the welfare state and labor market participation and the status of women work-family balance policies are affecting many. In this study, first, work-family balance policies by reviewing existing literature and, second, after 2000 years, the child care and women's labor market participation of the welfare state work-family is compatible with any change in policy. As a result, child care and women in each country to participate in a labor market - a significant impact on family balance policies were found.