Why our country's local autonomy system has failed feat. OECD

https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/oecd-economic-surveys-korea-2026_6b87f585-en/full-report/reshaping-the-geography-of-opportunity_c9b7f11a.html
Local autonomy in our country has a strong tendency to pull money from the central government.
Structurally, there is a tendency to judge administrators as competent if they are good at securing funds from the government.
For a certain tourism development project, City A applies even if the necessity of the project is ambiguous. City B and City C also apply.
Because if they don't, the neighboring region will take it..
Therefore, because resources are dispersed across various projects and regions for regional development, they fail to achieve economies of scale and, in the long run, do not help regional development at all.
In comparison, in Japan, a significant portion of the taxes paid in a certain region is used as a resource for that region's development, so residents carefully elect their administrators. Furthermore, when a situation arises where resources must be supplied from the central government to local governments—such as when transferring about 30 trillion won in tax revenue to the regions—it is not a "handout" concept; for instance, they reduced about 100 subsidies.
I was curious after seeing something like an expo lately, so I searched for it, and this is the gist of it.
What do you all think?