The purpose of this study is to analyse institutional framework of Korean local councils and to find out the way to reform it. The results of study can be summarized as follows. Pay of councillors should be converted from an honorary post system to a ...
The purpose of this study is to analyse institutional framework of Korean local councils and to find out the way to reform it. The results of study can be summarized as follows. Pay of councillors should be converted from an honorary post system to a full-time salaried post system. Also the salary level should be the standard of municipal director. It is not desirable to reduce the size of council uniformly. The type of electoral system is proposed to change district system to the medium or at-large one. But in the case of rural area, because of its special character, it is more rational to maintain present district electoral system. Regarding partisanship, it has shown that there are needs for more strictness in preventing the participation of parties. In association with the personnel administration of the council staff, it is desirable that the chairman will have the right to perform personnel administration.