This study attempts to reveal the relational characteristics of the character education and democratic citizenship education policies in developing the two education policies. To this end, first, it describes the process of each education policy development. Then, it drives the result of the relational characteristics seen by the mutual influence between the two educational policies in the process of politicization. Public documents produced by the Ministry of Education and the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education were used as the primary data. The data produced by other educational institutions, articles, and national assembly records were used as supplement data. Based on these data, the relational characteristics of the two education policies were named 'existing separately,' 'competition,' and 'overlap.' Throughout the relationship changes between the two education policies, it reveals that there is social and political power surrounding education policy and that this power conflict gives the dynamics in education policy.