Corruption : Its Concept , Scope , and Causes

Abstract

1. The administrative innovation campaign of the Korean was focused on the elimination of corruption within the bureaucracy or at least begin to clean up the administration. 2. It has become clear that the effort to eliminate corruption cannot be successful simply with the purge of corrupt officials within the administration, however vigorous and perpetual such are effort may be. 3. Corruption of government officials is closely related to social, cultural, political and economic conditions in Korea and it is even rooted partially in the history of the country. 4. In order to effectively eliminate corruption from officialdom, it is therefore necessary to clean up all sectors of society, and this will prevent the innovation campaign from being a stop-gap measure. 5. The innovation campaign is to control all social absurdities and disease. 6. There are many social pathologic cause and these are intricately related to one another, and the elimination of corruption is more urgent and has a bigger spill-over effect than the elimination of other social evils in Korea.