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What are the apparent research and methodological trends in the study of public administration in Korea and UK over the last five years? With this research purpose in mind, this article aims to apply Network Text Analysis Method, as an analytical tool, to the analysis of research trends in public administration in Korea and UK, to compare their recent academic tendencies and characteristics. In doing so, it analyzes 296 and 256 articles published by KAPA(Korean Association of Public Administration) and by Wiley-Blackwell (Public Administration), respectively, for five years ranging from 2005 to 2009. The research result shows that the research trends in the study of public administration of the two countries have similarities in some respects including methodology and main topics addressed. It also indicates that the Network Text Analysis can supplement insufficiencies and weaknesses of the existing method for research trend analysis in that it can derive key words used in the papers and key phrases relating to them as well, so that we could comprehend the relationships among key words and the characteristics of the phrases used.