Selected Books
Local Councils Also Hold Confirmation Hearings (in Korean)
The book covers the concept of confirmation hearings in local councils, the debate over their introduction and the process of institutionalization. It compares regional cases and operating procedures, and examines issues for institutional improvement such as candidate vetting, submission of materials, open meetings and resident participation. It is a co-authored work for readers who study or run the personnel-vetting function of local councils (in Korean).
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Toward a New Local Council (in Korean)
A collective work of the association that covers the principles and history of local council institutions through to their organization, powers and the conduct of meetings. It also addresses foreign local council systems and elections, relations between councils and other local institutions, and structural reform tasks arising from decentralization. Thirteen authors wrote it under the Special Committee on Local Council Development to mark the association's 30th anniversary (in Korean).
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