Keeping in mind where the Korean peninsula is at, the paper explores what developing indigenous theoretical capacity should mean. It should mean sticking to public administration`s core, policy execution helping the nation achieve its critical goals and objectives, rather than achieving a theoretical breakthrough modeled after science like stem cell research. Central argument is that knowledge, especially social knowledge, follows power. Since works of Anglo/Saxon and American origins come from powerful regions, they will dominate global standards. Once national goals and objectives are articulated, what kind of state a nation is going to be is determined. Then, let evolving nature and characteristics of the state determine what type and mix of policy execution instruments and approaches it will take primarily among three, bureaucracy, market and community.