The Korea Local Administration Review

As in the other fields of our society, women's political participation also becomes a necessary vehicle with which to enhance women's rights and interests. Especially, women's political participation becomes essential in the point that it ensures women's direct participation in policy-making process and reflects exactly women's interests. During the past time, a variety of institutional measures were invented to prompt women's political participation. Despite, women's political participation has not yet reached to a satisfactory level. Although women's advancing into local council has been showing an increasing trend following the introduction of proportional representation and women's quota system, it still remains at an insufficient level as compared to other countries. The current analysis of women's participation is performed as a measure to promote women's participation in local council, then short-term alternatives are suggested based upon it. In the main, the enlargement of women's quota system, the realignment of election district, and the intensification of each party's supporting policies for women's participation are proposed in this study.