2020, Vol.16, No.2

Crisisonomy 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.64

pISSN : 2466-1198 / eISSN : 2466-1201
https://journal.kci.go.kr/cemtp

This research aims to explore the mechanism of citizen participation for co-production as an innovative provision of public services. Recently, co-production in public service provision has drawn attention from researchers and policymakers around the world as it may prevent social conflict in the local society. Unlike the previous studies that focused on adopting the co-production model to the public service provision, this research focuses on the question of why citizens participate in co-production of public services. This research develops the theoretical and analytical models to deal with the question based on attitude theory and social capital theory. The model explains that citizens' motivations of participating in the provision of co-production are associated with citizens' identity for the region where they live or mediated by their trust and hospitality for the community. This research also discusses the academic relevance of the findings and policy suggestions for policymakers.

This study attempted to understand the real-life experience of the elderly who are vulnerable to suicide. Interviews were conducted with 10 elderly at risk of suicide and the data were analyzed by grounded theory method. Their life experiences were classified into 56 concepts, 16 subcategories and 6 categories and a paradigm model was proposed by axial coding. The paradigm model illustrated that “cumulative hardship” (causal condition) and “inescapable hopelessness” (contextual condition) are connected to “starving to death” (central phenomenon), along with “life strings” (intervening condition), “holding out” (action/interaction strategy), and “hope for a good death” (internal consequence). These results allowed us to understand the elderly suicide phenomenon through the cumulative disadvantage theory of aging and the theory of hopelessness depression. Moreover, we found that it is necessary to create a social network in the community and provide the programs which stimulate the meaning of life and develop an optimistic view on life for the elderly vulnerable to suicide.

This study analyzed the risk level of non-managed products excluded from the Product Safety Certification System (PSCS) in South Korea and suggested the need of those products to be managed by PSCS. It focused on seven products including lawn trimmer, sickle, saw (saw blade), luggage carrier, snow chain, exercising ball, and alpine stick, which were found hazardous by the 1st Multi-ministries Product Safety Policy Council in 2017. The risk and need of safety management for each product were analyzed using domestic and foreign standards, accident case analysis, and Delphi technique. We then modified the analysis results based on the opinions of stakeholders such as external experts, consumers and manufacturers and suggested which products should be included in PSCS. The results showed that an exercising ball and an alpine stick should be included in PSCS to manage the potential risks. Concerning an appropriate level of safety management for those products, an exercising ball should be managed by safety verification system while an alpine stick by supplier guarantee system. Besides, further study is needed for a luggage carrier regarding its need of safety management and testing items from a long-term perspective.