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ODA Policy Process and Bureaucratic Politics of Korea Examined from the Perspective of Rupturing Confrontational Process

  • Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies
  • Abbr : JAPS
  • 2018, 25(1), pp.29-60
  • DOI : 10.18107/japs.2018.25.1.002
  • Publisher : Institute of Global Affairs
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general
  • Received : February 7, 2018
  • Accepted : March 8, 2018
  • Published : March 30, 2018

Sang Tae Kim 1 Han Sang-Yun 2

1한경대학교
2경희대학교

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ABSTRACT

One of the distinctive features of Korea’s ODA policy process is the phenomenon characterized by bureaucratic politics over ODA leadership between the Ministry of Strategy and Finance and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This study examines this phenomenon from the perspective of “rupturing confrontational process” which takes place when one party of competitive bureaucrat groups infringes on the jurisdiction of the other party. This paper explains resultant patterns of this process: one-sided victory of the dominant group, one-sided dominance of the dominant group, and frustration of the intention of the dominant group. This phenomenon of the rupturing confrontational process is expected to be further deteriorated considering the Korean government’s aim to increase its ODA/GNI ratio to 0.3 in 2030 from 0.14 in 2015. Forty eight government officials and field experts were interviewed for this study.

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