The purpose of Article 128 of the Administrative Procedure Act (TAPA)-reopening the administrative proceedings-is to reconcile maintaining the stability of law against preserving justice of individual cases. Although Article 128 of the TAPA is modeled after Article 51 of the German Administrative Procedure Act (GAPA), the text of the two articles is not identical. Instead of allowing the reopening of administrative proceedings when an administrative decision becomes uncontestable (unanfechtbar), as the GAPA does, the TAPA states that the parties and interested persons of an administrative decision can petition to revoke and amend the decision when the statutory period for administrative/judicial review elapses.Despite the textual difference between the two provisions, this paper argues that, judging from the legislative history and the purpose of Article 128, it should be interpreted to have identical meaning as its German counterpart. In other words, people can invoke Article 128 not only when the statutory period elapses and they do not petition for administrative/judicial review, but also in cases where people do petition for administrative/judicial review but their petitions are rejected. Currently, most administrative courts do not adopt such interpretation; they are concerned that this interpretation will undermine the principle of ”res judicata”. However, this paper argues that because the subjects of administrative and judicial proceedings are different, the principle of res judicata should not be an issue of concern if the foregoing interpretation is adopted.astly, from legislative policy perspective, in order to resolve the current dispute regarding Article 128 of the TAPA, and to fulfill the purpose of reopening administrative proceedings, this paper suggests that the wordings of Article 128 should be amended to be identical to Article 51 of the GAPA (i.e., ”… when an administrative decision becomes incontestable (unanfechtbar)”).