Research on the privatization of Japan (from JNR to JR)

일본국유철도의 JR로의 민영화에 관한 연구

  • Published : 2008.11.13

Abstract

Presently, the policy base of our government focusing on the privatization of public corporation with the transfer of political power, KORAIL, one of public corporation, also can not be free from there. the policy line of our government to privatize KORAIL following the developed countries' precedent has been advocated repeatedly already since the 1990's. whenever it happened, it was true that government as well as KORAIL researched on the success or failure case of privatization in developed countries, but considering lessened pressure to the public corporation during Nor's administration, I researched on the privatization of overseas' railways to remind you of what is advantage or disadvantage. In this research, treated Japan's case which is considered one of most successful privatization story in several cases. with the result of this research, which is expected to be utilized setting the policy of privatization direction, if KORAIL tried to be privatized once again.

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