Restructured Executive Branch Under President Lee
As reported in the previous issue of Korea Insight (“The Bulldozer Moves In: Lee Myung-bak is Inaugurated as the Republic of Korea’s President”), President Lee moved to streamline the government through a process of downsizing, decentralizing, decreasing deficiencies, and deregulating. A key element of the plan was to restructure and consolidate a number of ministries and other executive agencies.