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[National Future Strategic Insight] Koreans’ Perceptions of Allocation: Implications for the “Meritocracy” Debate (No. 50)

Date : 2022-08-08 Writer : Lee Sang-jic

This report examines the meaning of “meritocracy” by analyzing the perception of “resource allocation criteria” among Koreans based on the Koreans’ Happiness Survey, 2021.

Pointing out that the ambiguous performance-oriented system, also referred as “ideally effort-based, but practically performance-based” system, may be what Koreans think of as meritocracy today, the report highlights the need to thoroughly examine the bright and dark sides of “meritocracy” as a criterion for resource allocation.