판례를 통해 본 공무원의 정치적 중립의 문제점

Some Problems of Civil Servants' Political Neutrality in the Judicial Precedents

The current trends of neo-liberalism in modern society made the competition among nations more severe, so there have been many changes in governmental roles, and governmental reforms in accordance with new public management, which extended it's political influences into the administration. So, the need for the extension of political activities of public servants was gradually increased. This article studied on the civil servants' political neutrality in the perspectives of positive merit systems and environmental changes of today. The method of studying article was the case study. This article analyzed some problems in the personnel systems of political neutrality in Korea through comparing two different judicial precedents on the same case. And this article discussed some findings in the analysis of precedents and recommended some ideas for the improvement of the public personnel systems on the political neutrality in Korea.