계획기구의 의사소통적 전환

The Communicative Turn in Planning Agency: The Presidential Commission on the National Agenda Revisited

Korea has experienced an astonishing economic take-off since the 1960s, and overlapping literature asserts the role of the state in its economic development. However, calling the continuance of state-led economic development into question with the economic liberalization and democratic transition from the 1980s in Korea, the government decided in 1994 to abolish the state’s planning agency, the Economic Planning Board(EPB). In addition to this political economic change, the trends of globalization, informatization, and localization extended the concept of development: Development is no longer the sole objective of the economic plans anymore, and the government has increasingly organized the advisory commissions related to all sections of the society. This brings into question: what kind of institution has promoted public planning since 1994, and what has it accomplished? Narrowing down the above question, this study attempts to view the Presidential Commission on the National Agenda(PCNA) in the Roh Moo-Hyun administration through the lens as a planning agency. This study examines its functions of promoting public planning in terms of establishing 100-Roadmaps and facilitating the effective implementation of policies. The main findings of the study are as follows: the PCNA shows changes in several aspects-namely the method, the wording, and the scope of development in public planning. The method of planning was changed from pure bureaucracy to a public-private cooperation system, namely governance. Semantic changes, such as the word plan being changed to roadmap, are examples of this. In addition, government planning was changed from pure economic policy to a more holistic model of development.