문재인 정부 출범 시기의 정부조직법 개정 분석

It is expected that Moon Jaein Administration would embark on extensive restructuring of government organizations to tackle social problems accumulated for 20 years since foreign exchange crisis of 1997, ruthless global trends that most countries seek their own interests rather than consider other countries, and political turmoil in northeast Asia triggered by DPRK’s nuclear weapon tests. There were so many demands for government organization reshuffling that thirty-three revision proposals were presented to the National Assembly. However, the final scope of revision was very narrow. As a result, as of 2021, social problems still go on. The first reason is that the Moon Administration had minimized the scope of change in 2017 with an intention to drive massive changes after the Constitutional amendment expected in 2018, but the Constitution was not amended up to now. Second, the ruling party could not seek changes in the organizations that the opposition party strongly objected because it did not have majority in the National Assembly. Third, without presidential transition committee for the first time in ROK history, it chose restructuring items that both the ruling and opposition parties can reach compromise easily. Government organizations are kind of tools to push for Administration’s policies. Subsequently, the executive needs to pursue decisively organizational restructuring when needed owing to rapid environmental changes. even though