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Local councils in Korea and Japan are run by principle of mutual control in separated structure with executive organ. Under similar governing structure like this, reality and problems of local council and its secretariat are considerably similar. Among various environment around a local council, this study aims to focus on secretariat that substantially support the local council in order to compare & analyze systems in both countries in middle range level. And through comparative study, reformation of local council which has consistently attempted from past to present is contextually approached. First, Japan, different from Korea, has admitted local government laws like enact an ordinance for Punishment and penalty, and enact an autonomous right to tax by comparing legislation; Second, through comparison on composition, function, quota of organization, secretariat in Korea is twice larger than that in Japan, while personnel authority and organization advising council member have relatively independent specialists for policy support; Third, authority over secretariat officers of local council in both country are belong to local government head. Such differences are understood to be in interactional relationship regarding reformation development argued by local councils in both countries, and in contextual perspective, this can be connoted to difference in reformation by individualism and collectivism.