The policy making processes in general can be articulated into five steps of problem formation, formulation, adoption, implementation, and evaluation. However, the National Development Planning processes in Korea might be characterized by four steps :...
The policy making processes in general can be articulated into five steps of problem formation, formulation, adoption, implementation, and evaluation. However, the National Development Planning processes in Korea might be characterized by four steps : problem identification, plan formulation, implementation, and evaluation. In the process, the National Assembly has not much job to do with the plan adoption.
The four steps mentioned above can be more interpreted as follows : 1) Problem identification means that planners collect data on economic and social condition or On needs from citizens and they analyze them. 2) For the plan formulation, the Economic Planning Board (EPB), based on the data analyses, manages various committees which have duties of establishing plan guidelines, coordinating alternatives, drafting final version of plan, and its mortification. 3) As the plan is chosen, EPB establishes one year economic plan in terms of resources and monetary supply and directs it to organs. And based on the one year plan, each
government organ designs its own implementation machinery and performs the plan through it and with its own staff. And 4) The plan is evaluated with respect to the validity and future effects of plan itself. However, the plan is often evalauated by the feedback mechanism throughout the implementation stage. Evaluation may continue, or modify the existing plan.
The Five-Year Economic Development Plans of Korea have bean ctiefly prepared by government economists who are government officials working for the various government organs.
However, they never neglected opinions and ideas from various interest groups and political parties. They delightfully have invited plan experts from private sector to have effective plans.