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This study try to compare with public practical servants' role and the corruption structure in the local administration of Late Chosun Dynasty, Ch'ing Dynasty and Japan. It focused on 1) comparison local clerks' role, 2) political, economical environment induced on corruption of local administration, 3)nepotism and culture of corruption friendly, 4)salary, 5) organization structure and personnel administration system of local clerk, 6)openness and conflict structure of local clerks' group inner, 7) abuse of discretionary power, control and response. Because local bureaucrats had no experience in their practical administration and were frequently changed by avoiding their natives, dismissal and resignation, they didn't know the condition of their post and the customs of local communities well and couldn't control local clerks' corruption. Local clerks were responsible for a host of duties related to the actual local administration including the collection of tax. However, there was no official salary system for these petty clerks. I found that the higher the power distance, the collectivism, and the level of uncertainty avoidance, the higher the level of corruption. These facts show that nepotism culture functions a corruption-inducing factor. We should attend to the newly emerging civil movement trying to realize participatory democracy, transparency, administrative ethics on the level of local administration.