This study aims to analyze selection practices of the Korean local government, and propose some strategies for reforming them in order to respond succesfully to changes in administrative demands to the local governments. This study is performed through literature review and questionnaire survey to 220 local administrators. With beginning of local autonomy, Korean local governments are faced with rapid growth of and changes in administrative demands. In order to respond to the changes satisfactorily, policymaking capacities and administrative expertise of the local governments has to be enhanced. This needs to reform selection practices of the local governments, so that they can recruit young, competent applicants. However, overconcentration of national administrators in the policymaking and managerial positions of the local governments, one of remaining vestiges of strong centralization during the past three decades, has caused many difficulties to the local governments in recruiting them. Among the difficulties, low morale and poor expertise of local administrators are most salient. Major strategies suggested in this study to overcome the difficulties include abolishment of placement of national administrators in the local governments and activation of exchange programs between national and local administrators, reinforcement of recruitment activities, enforcement of Senior Civil Service Examination for local administrators, enlargement of open-competitive employment, and reorganization of subjects for selection examination.