CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ... 5 CONTENT ... 6 1.Introduction : Korean Bureaucracy in Comparative Perspective ... 9 Part Ⅰ : INDIGENITY AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ... 19 2. Korea Public Bureaucracy in Transition ... 21 3. Indigenization of Korean Public Administration : Democratic Elitism as a Possibility Model ... 37 4. Korean Political Psyche and Administration ... 46 5. Confucianism and Administrative Development Interventionism ... 63 6. Korean Bureaucracy in Historical Perspective ... 76 Part Ⅱ : Administrative Reform and Development ... 95 7. Public Management Reform in Korea ... 97 8. The Theory and Applicability of Government by the Market in Korea ... 125 9. An Assessment of Government Intervention in Korean Economic Development ... 147 10. Democratization and Administrative Reform in Korea ... 160 11. Who Serves the People? : Educational Background of South Korean and Japanese Bureaucrats ... 170 12. Toward Gender Equality in the Korean Civil Service ... 191 Part Ⅲ : Local Autonomy and Public Service ... 209 13. Regionalism in Korean Public Bureaucracy ... 211 14. A Theoretical Overview of Representative Bureaucracy : Synthesis ... 228 15. Revitalizing the Local Public Service in Korea : New Challenges, Barriers, and Strategies ... 238 Part Ⅳ : Public Bureaucracy in North Korea ... 259 16. Political and Administrative Development in North Korea ... 261 17. The Role of Elites in Leadership Succession and Challenges in North Korea ... 304 18. Reform Measures in North Korea : Writhing in the Agony of Pain ... 325 19. Options for Administrative Reform in North Korea : Learning from China? ... 352 ABOUT THE AUTHORS / Bun Woong Kim ... 381 BIBLIOGRAPHY ... 383