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This paper analyzed the efficiency of local financial operation from the perspectives of creative city for 7 metropolitan cities. This paper applies DEA analysis to determine the efficiency of the districts of Busan metropolitan city over time for 3 years (2006-2008). This paper used such factors including number of government employees and expenditure as inputs, culture-based index, city park area and sport facility capacity as outputs. The results of analysis were as follows. First, Seoul and Ulsan were proved to be most efficient, while Busan appeared to be most inefficient in total efficiency points. Second, operational and scale efficiency of metropolitan cities increases over time but Busan still remained in a stagnant state largely due to scale inefficiency. As the results of these analyses, we suggest the means of evaluation and supervision for the local public finance operation. The detail indicator should be developed on the basis of the five standards: the revision of administrative districts, the improvement scheme in legal and institutional system, the participation of local community, and the organization of evaluation team.