부패문화의 치유 : 삶의 질의 향상을 중심으로

The Healing of a Culture of Corruption : Toward Improving the Quality of Life

The phenomena of corruption occur due to numerous factors that are intertwined with each other. The culture of corruption is one of the most important causes of corruption in Korean society. The quality of life(QOL) is a coined term that embraces many attributes of human life and various frameworks. approaches theories and philosophies have been developed on this concept. QOL can be construed from ideal. happiness. just society as social judgment. and from a cultural perspective. QOL is affected significantly by culture. Corruption is part of culture. The significance of corruption to QOL is that it is correlated to one another. A society with high QOL has a transparent society with fewer instances of corruption. On the contrary, a society with low QOL has higher instances of corruption in its society. Being transparent society without corruption is one of major factors to improve the reality of quality of life in Korea. Therefore public confidence and transparency should be included as part of the QOL domains. In the context of the above-mentioned perspective. this research focuses on anti-corruption policy for healing a culture of corruption(COC). In this research the author attempts to conceptualize the COC & the QOL in terms of holistic standpoints because of great advantages. Furthermore the author contends that the current anti-corruption system does not work very well because of lack of management as well as the deeply structural culture of corruption. Therefore the author suggests that self-moralizing & self-innovation strategy. systemic anti-corruption training or education. and social campaign as well as system change should be strongly emphasized for healing of a COC in the country.