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Korean Journal of Policy Studies
Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University

Korean J. Policy Stud. 2012; 27(3):101-123

pISSN: 1225-5017, eISSN: 2765-2807

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52372/kjps27305

Article

Comparison of Civil Service Reform in the United States and Korea: Central Personnel Agencies and Senior Civil Service Systems*

Soonyoung Choi1
1Soonyoung Choi is a research fellow at the Korea Institute of Public Administration. Email: csyoung@kipa.re.kr, csyoung1020@naver.com.

© Copyright 2012 Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Received: Jun 08, 2012; Revised: Jun 26, 2012; Revised: Aug 14, 2012; Accepted: Aug 21, 2012

Published Online: Dec 31, 2012

Abstract

Recent changes to the Korean civil service system, such as the introduction of the Senior Civil Service system in 2006 and the elimination of the Civil Service Commission in 2008, superficially resemble changes introduced by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 in the United States. This study compares the structures and characteristics of the two countries’ civil service systems, their reforms, and the political context and processes by which reform legislation came to pass. Based on this comparison, policy implications are drawn for improving the Korean civil service system.

Keywords: central personnel agency; Senior Executive Service; Senior Civil Service; Civil Service Reform Act of 1978; National Civil Service Act