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This article aims at analyzing the local devotion results of central governmental authorities in the maritime administration field and proposes better alternatives for overcoming major problems. The scope and objectives of this research focused on the local decentralization statistics in relation to observable performance data from the Korean government from 2000 to 2012. The characteristics and problems are as follows; first, the initiative power of local devotion was not from the local but the central government. Second, contents of local devotion were mainly fragmented implementation jobs without any core function and authority of the central government. Third, even already-decided jobs were not transferred promptly by the central government. Forth, even the National Assembly blocked the legislation of the comprehensive transfer act. These characteristics are just applied to the generic maritime administration fields. Consequently, it would be desirable that the problem of the function allocation between central-local government including the maritime fields, should work out in the perspective of democratic politics. In other words, local government as well as local residents, by themselves, should recognize the importance of local decentralization for regional development and actively fight over grand central political powers. The reason being that the function allocation issue of central- local government is also the result as well as the object of democratic bargaining.