Their Korean fellow citizens know this fact very well. By the same token, the dominant public opinion is that the KCSS is overstaffed in comparison with their counterparts in the private sector. This opinion is made in reference to a comparison between the public and private sectors. We have no concrete evidence to make a statement about overstaffing or understaffing in terms of KCSS's productivity. More Koreans tend to accept that the KCSS is reliable than that is unreliable.
Many indicators show only a slight variance in responses.
With a few exceptions, Koreans tend to have negative opinions in most indicators. This fact implies that the people perceive the civil service as a holistic entity rather than a composite of many dimensions or indicators. It is ironic that the KCSS has been the hero in Korean industrialization and liberated the people from poverty, but the people do not give much credit to the heros. As Rainey noted, Koreans regard civil service positions as prestigious, and influential. Corruption of civil servants is also of great concern to them.