The purpose of the paper is to find out some particular charteristics of Cheju-islander`s political orientation in comparision with those of other areas in Korea and provide some useful alternatives in order to vitalize local politics and autonomy. More specially we are concerned with developing some operational alternatives for local government following our findings for Cheju. The experience of last several years since the era of local autonomy system shows that even though people of Cheju are interested much in the local problems they do not know how to get involve. In many times it results in irrational response to the issues. Finally it leads to the emotional resistence based on private motives. Another consequence is appeared in people`s political attitudes. Cheju people have shown quite different pattern of voting in the last several elections. The preferences of non-partisan candidates are strong in comparison with other local areas in Korea. What we found are people vote strongly based on the personal relationship and historical experiences. The have very weak partisan ID. In addition the historical incidents like 4.3 uprising and large scale development sponsored by central government for that only Cheju people have experienced make the people stay away any ideological stand. But it is ironical that people do not satisfy with the activities of non-partisan encumbents. Probably it shows that the choice of their non-partisan candidates is not calculated. Based on the findings, we suggest the ways we can vitalize the local autonomy and government. One is behavioral change to accomodate new system. It is necessary to learn how to govern themselves including decision making. The other is more structural. At the level we focus why people have an apathy to current parth system. We claim the change in partisan decision making in that we can expect more local-based partisan system. Also, we suggest the structural changes in terms of functions and duties of local government. Finally it is necessary not only to strengthen the authority and activities of local council but to allow more political role and responsibility of elected mayor and governor.