The new anti-corruption strategy in Korea: Focused on socio-cultural environmental education

• Main Author: Kim, Young Jong
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2005
• Subjects: Corruption—Korea (South); Politics and Social Change
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/7184; https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/ci/sereArticleSearch/ciSereArtiView.kci?sereArticleSearchBean.artiId=ART001132108
• Institution: De La Salle University

The prevalent corruption phenomena in Korea seriously threaten the democratic structure of national development. One of the major causes of corruption in Korea is the "weaknesses"of ethics or morality among Korean public officials. This paper focuses on anti-corruption education as a new anti-corruption strategy to prevent corruption phenomena in Korea. To reduce corruption cases in Korea, the author suggests a new strategy that focuses on changing the cultural behavior and attitude toward corruption. By creating an ethical environment for public officials, this new strategy can be viewed as a developmental engine that can change norms of behavior. In this paper, the author contends that it is necessary to formalize such anti-corruption education in order to prevent the widespread corruption phenomena in Korea