Environmental policy in Korea: conservative adaptation

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to examine the development of environmental policy in Korea and attempt to characterize the policy with comparative perspective.In the first part of this paper, I would like to give a brief history of the Korean environmental policy, then discuss the political economy of each actor's responses to the deteriorating environmental qualities. In addition, I would like to point out several distinctive features which differenciate the Korean environmental policy from those of other countries.