ABSTRACT
The Administrative staff complain about the laboriousness of the process. The questionnaire has a lot of words written in unfamiliar Chinese characters, and has first to be copied into Korean characters, all twelve pages, then sent to each section and Field Station head. All government employees in South Korea get a 'bonus' of 400 percent of their monthly salary each year automatically; as do Farmland Improvement Association (FLIA) staff. The FLIA reform proposes to rely more heavily on instruments to manipulate the organisation's field of choice, such that compliance carries its own reward, rather than on command; and on manipulation in a relatively non-discretionary way. The similarities and differences in irrigation organisation of South Korea and Taiwan invite systematic study. The facts of water supply are only one reason why there is little to be learnt from South Korea's irrigation experience of direct relevance to countries of South and Southeast Asia.
