This article is purposed to reveal that M.E.S.T. of Korea has used the
shadow education expenses press release to legitimatize the assertion that
`the shadow education expenses has been decreased' with regard to
bureaucratic propaganda. In contrast to the traditional propaganda, the
bureaucratic propaganda stresses the fact that the assertion of government
has been based on objective facts to legitimatize it.
This paper analyzes the press release of the shadow education expenses
with what kind of propaganda strategies has been used by M.E.S.T. As a
result, this paper reveals that M.E.S.T. has used the bureaucratic propaganda
strategies: discarding unfavorable data; false causality; weak inference; misuse
of statistics to corroborate the assertion that `the shadow education expenses
has been decreased' and it is the result of policy effects implemented by
M.E.S.T., while ignoring the evidence that `the shadow education expenses has
been increased.'
Proceeding from what has been said above, it could be concluded that
M.E.S.T. has used bureaucratic propaganda with the press release of the
shadow education expenses. To prevent misuse of bureaucratic propaganda,
policy researchers should monitor governmental statistics and press release
rather than reproducing governmental propaganda.