The Korea Local Administration Review

The purpose of this study is to review the contents of national tasks that the Yoon Seok-yeol government, launched in May, aims to pursue in the field of decentralization and balanced development, and to discuss their policy priorities in Korea in the future. To achieve this goal, academic papers and media articles dealing with decentralization and balanced development were analyzed, and AHP analysis method was conducted targeting experts. As a result of this study, the future policy direction of the Yun Seok-yeol government's decentralization and balanced development is presented as follows. First, it is necessary to recognize decentralization and balanced development as complementary rather than separate.
Based on this, it is necessary to utilize the decentralization policy as a means and achieve the goal of balanced development through these instrumental activities. Second, active support measures are needed to foster local specialized industries and settle the local population. In the case of experts who responded to the AHP questionnaires, they responded that these two policy tasks should be addressed as the most important. It is significant that the two policy tasks to achieve balanced development are regarded as the most important than many other decentralization tasks. In addition, it is necessary to conduct a precise review of the policy considerations incidental to the utilization of individual policy measures.