특별지방행정기관의 재정비에 관한 고찰

Against the backdrop of local decentralization drive of Roh Moo-Hyun administration, restructuring of special regional administrative agencies is the first and foremost agenda along with introducing autonomy in education and police. Due to its wide range of special regional administrative agencies in local provinces, South Korea was asked to iron out the problems arising from it. Among them, the violation of local autonomy system, job duplications, difficulties in controling and assessment, and unabridged gaps between power and accountability of related agencies were suggested as the most urgent issues. For that end, restructuring principles such as complementary, responsibility articulation and customer-oriented were needed to apply. Roh administration and its committee have initiated the reforms on the basis of those principles, targeting 257 special agencies nationwide in 9 areas. However, the efforts failed on several reasons. The decentralization policy did not secure its advocacy groups as well as full support of president and his administration followed by the short of strategic choice. These factors is called to take into consideration if decentralization policy on special regional administrative agencies is successful down the road.