목민심서에 나타난 공직윤리와 현대 공직부패문제에 관한 연구

A Study of Ethical Issues of Public Servants on "Mokminsimseo" and Corruption Problems of Public Officers in Recent Korea

This paper is to abstract some ethical issues which are mentioned in the "Mokminsimseo" written by Dasan Cheong Yak Yong in 18th century. And relate the issues to todays' corruption patterns of Korean government officers. The purpose is to analyze the changing trends of corrupted behaviors of public officers from the 18th century. In this paper, I try to find out corruption problem from several newspapers and categorize the issues by the contents of "Mokminsimseo". The charecteristics of Korean corruption phenomena are totalistic, social elite centric, culture baesd. In these sense, the corruption phenomena of Korea should be approached by total society concern, social elites, and cultural change.