The purpose of this study is to analyze the practical validity of the private education
expense reduction policy adopted by the Lee Myung-bak administration. For this
purpose, the discrepancy between the logical expectation and the actual outcomes as
well as reasons for policy adoption is explored and the policy implications are induced,
grounded on Dunn's policy argumentation model. The analysis of this policy includes as
follows: the information, warrant, rebuttal of the policy, the discrepancy between policy
insistence and practical validity, and the reasons for the policy adoption.
The main findings of this study are as follows: The analysis shows that the Lee
government's insistency on the policy doesn't have the practical validity because the
private education expense had been increased. The reasons are the errors in
policy-relavant information, incomplete review of policy causality, insufficient
considerations to rebuttal, lack of reasonable prediction. And the reasons for adoption of
the invalid educational policy are the errors and defects in value system, policy
intention, or underlying premises on the personal part of the policy maker in
policy-making process, and the differences in political capability, political context and
intentions related with it, manifested as the public authority and organizational power on
the sociopolitical aspect. Finally, this study suggests the policy implications for reducing
the private education expense, based on the analysis executed on this research.