This study analyzed how Korea's 'Big Data Policy' was formed and who led it through Kingdon's Multiple Stream Framework(MSF).
Korea's 'Big Data Policy' opened window of policy change with the addition of policy problem stream, policy alternative stream, political stream.
On the policy problem stream, we looked at national anxiety about the era of the fourth industrial revolution, preemptive responses from major advanced countries such as the U.S. and the EU, AI rise in China, iPhone shock in 2009, and AlphaGo shock in 2016.
On the policy alternative stream, we looked into the government agencies that led the 'Big Data policy', legislation activities in the Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye governments.
Regarding the political stream, we looked at the direction of government administration, political confrontation, and public opinion change since the Lee Myung-bak administration.
The leading role of policy entrepreneurs was crucial in bringing each flow together to open a window of policy change. Policy entrepreneurs in the Moon Jae-in government were identified as President Moon Jae-in and the President of National Information Society Agency(NIA).
In conclusion, this study confirmed that quasi-government agency has become a policy entrepreneurs in the 'Big Data Policy'.
President Moon Jae-in embodied the 'Data Highway Construction' of 2018, which is the core of the 'Big Data Policy' that the current government is pursuing, and National Information Society Agency(NIA) provided the theoretical foundation.