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The Purpose of this study is to examine some factors that influence on the political adoption of the Amended Sejong City Act(ASCA). This study is based on the analytic framework composed of several theories, veto player model, theory of political rationality, and theory of voting behavior in the legislature. The analysis of this study, first of all, shows that the political adoption of controversial policy like the ASCA was affected by the number of veto players. The ASCA couldn't be adopted in political area, because two veto players, the President and the National Assembly, were in conflict with each other over political position and policy value. Second, The ASCA was lack of the political rationality in both the procedural and the substantial aspects. The government paid no attention to serious meeting with the ruling party, to mutual communication to the nation ahead of policy-making. Also, the government put an excessive emphasis on the efficiency and the crisis management instead of balanced development and trust building. Finally, the ASCA failed to get the public acceptance. Many member of the National Assembly couldn't vote for the ASCA which the electorate had opposed strongly.