The purposes of this paper are to illustrate the different policy choices that Malaysia and Korea have adopted to get over East Asian economic crisis of 1997 and to review how different economic policy choices of both countries have influenced over the political development. To prove these assumptions, this paper puts both economic crisis of 1997 and policy choices of Malaysia and Korea as independent variables. Setting elections, political parties, and civil societies of each countries as dependent variables for political consequences, this paper tested whether different policy choices of Malaysia and Korea resulted in different political outcomes. This paper suggests that political consequences of Malaysia and Korea was less affected by their policy choices, while economic crisis of 1997 was seen to be a relatively dominant denominator for political development of these countries.