2006, Vol.13, No.

Korea Social Policy Review 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 2.47

pISSN : 1226-0525
https://journal.kci.go.kr/kasp

Issues and its policy tasks on the introduction of long-term care system Kim, Jin Soo*․Park, Eun Young**․Ahn, Su Ran*** The government is driving an introduction of long-term care system in the form of social insurance in 2008 by stages. Long-term care system has been required with regard to the demographic change, caused by rapidly ageing population and low fertility and social changes such as the trend toward the nuclear family, increasing in women's social participation and burden on supporting family. From now on, it seems to be urgent the introduction of long-term care system because policy actions are required as the social demand on the care is more and more increasing. Issues and its policy tasks which are pointed out at the stage of debate on long-term care system should be discussed at large. However, such a trial has not be actively accomplished yet. In this sense, this paper analyzes general problems and tasks, which are necessary for the introduction of long-term care system. First of all, in systematic aspects, we analyze theoretical approaches and fundamental features of system. Additionally, we point out the limitations and tasks of establishing relationship between coverage and beneficiaries, and franchise system in institutional aspects. In regard of facilities and personnel infra-structure, which would be basic factors on the introduction of system, we point out their problems by now and press to make an effort to solve them. Finally, we suggest to harmonize policies through cooperation between the central- and local governments to introduce the long term care rationally, settle it stably and attain the sustainability of the system.

A Study on the Alternative Plan of Problematic Situations in Korean Public Education System Kim, Yong Ill* This article aims to examine the problems of public education system and propose an alternative plan of it in Korea. For this purpose, the author adopts the system approach. First of all, Korean public education system is characterized by low public investment and high private expenditure. Second, the process of it is distinguished from other OECD countries' especially in that the very poor educational conditions. And the educational interactions between teachers and students are also very limited. Third, the distinctive feature of the output are summarized as follows: high test scores in some major subjects, the loss of civic and human education. In addition to these problematic situations, there have been two fatal obstacles for normalizing the public education in Korea. One is the 'Hakbulism'(a kind of drastic credentialism or diplomaism), the other is a vicious circle of excessive competition which have been aggravated by market-oriented education reform. Therefore in this article the author propose “world class knowledge education and civic education”, which will come true the inclusive and sustainable society.

New Direction of the Employment Service Delivery System for the Disadvantaged Class Kim, Wha Soon* This study’s objective is to present a new direction of the employment service policy that is friendly towards the disadvantaged class. The researcher selectively sampled 10 participants from the three groups classified based on the poverty line: NBLSS (National Basic Livelihood Security System) recipient poor group, near poor group, and non-poor but disadvantaged in employment group. Through interview method, information on career, job search activities, and employment service utilization condition after the foreign exchange crisis was collected. As a result, the following were recognized: participants continuously experienced compulsory change of jobs even after the foreign exchange crisis, an individual possesses multiple disadvantages, poor household and employment disadvantages are mutually reinforcing, and the disadvantaged class is situated within unofficial labor market. Job search activity patterns and public employment service utilization condition of the disadvantaged class were also identified. In addition, the study discovered that the public employment safety net had not functioned effectively for any of the three groups, and that the job search activities of the disadvantaged class were largely dependent on unreliable local newsletters. This means that the official labor market focused public employment safety net is not able to deliver adequate employment service to those situated within unofficial labor market. In conclusion, new employment service delivery system governance run by the association of people, government and local authorities was proposed for each of the groups.