The Korea Local Administration Review

As it was pointed out that it is important to expand national awareness for the realization of autonomy and decentralization, the purpose of this study was to empirically study the performance factors and influence factors of revitalization of resident education for autonomy and decentralization. In fact, the case of Gangneung-si was examined as an education for local residents on decentralization of self-government. Regional governments, basic local governments, regional councils, basic assemblies, regional universities, industry-academic cooperation groups of regional universities, Link Plus project groups, local resident autonomous organizations, and local media establish local governance. This local governance directly designed the education led by residents. As an independent variable affecting ‘overall satisfaction’ with education, ‘education content’ was analyzed to have the greatest influence, followed by ‘instructor’ and ‘education period’, which were found to be statistically significant. As a result of examining the effect of 10 ‘education topics’ provided during education on ‘satisfaction’ of resident education, only the model whose dependent variable was ‘satisfaction with education period’ was adopted as a statistically significant model, and ‘decentralization and autonomy, balanced regional development, and resident sovereignty’ was analyzed as the independent variable with the greatest influence, followed by ‘Korean local autonomy and Gangwon-do’, ‘local finance’, and ‘participatory budgeting’ in that order. Based on the above empirical research, the following development tasks were proposed for resident education in order to improve the level of autonomy and decentralization : 1) decentralization of resident education, 2) establishment of local governance for resident education, 3) resident-led education, 4) practical application of education content, 5) clarification of resident education goals and motivation.