Challenges of Korean public administration and policy

Abstract

Scholars of Korean public administration and policy have continuously discussed the indigenization of public administration and public policy theory. To some extent, this is a strange phenomenon given that Korean public administration and policy is dissimilar from that of both Asian and non-Asian countries. The indigenization discourse is rather a Procrustes bed making Korean public administration fi t into an arbitrary standard disguised by the name 'universal theory'. Each chapter of this book shows how Korean public administration has dealt with a variety of problems and has respond to them through a complex adaptive process. Rather than emphasizing the uniqueness of the Korean experience, this chapter discusses the challenges that Korean public administration confronts.