2019, Vol.26, No.2

Korea Social Policy Review 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 2.47

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

The purpose of this study was to analyze the public of the social cooperative children's center and the obstacles to practice the publicity. The researcher conducted focus group and in-depth interviews with four childcare centers. The author also interviewed a government employee, an activist in『Co-care and Community Education』, and officials related to the social economic center. In order to examine the public meaning of child care in the social cooperative children's center, it was analyzed from the perspective of community infrastructure, participation, network, cooperation and reciprocity, and child rights. Research results as follows: first of all, the members of the social cooperative children's centers are actively involved in management and child care, and trust is formed through democratic decision making. Second, the social cooperative children's centers have loose links and aims for solidarity through a coalition. Third, the social cooperative children's centers provide time and nature friendly space for children and practice child care in terms of child-centered focus, which places importance on children's right to happiness. Fourth, the social cooperative children's centers are caring together, are interested in the village and contributes to th community. Finally, The value of cooperation and mutual benefit is realized through care and management together. In short, the social cooperative children's center is a model as a third party to practice the public interest in childcare. In order to expand the publicity in childcare, the members need an expanded discussion and practice, and legal and institutional improvement are needed.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the policy on migrant work in Japan’s long-term care system. To do this, I investigate how migrant work has been allowed in Japan’s long-term care system and how migrant care workers are working in Japan’s long-term care system. Introducing the EPA(Economic Partnership Agreements) care worker program in 2008, Japan began to accept migrant workers. Since then, Japan has expanded its migrant work policy in the long-term care system introducing the "care worker visa" in 2017 and the "new worker visa" in 2019. The current policy on migrant work in Japan’s long-term care system has two schemes, and they are the EPA care worker program and care worker visa scheme. Under the current system, migrant work is found mainly in the care facility services. The migrant workers should hold the qualification of the certified care worker(kaigofukushishi) and receive equal treatment to Japanese care workers in terms of the wage and the working condition. Although the share of migrant workers in Japan’s long-term care system is too small to improve the labor shortage in long-term care, the policy has been designed to have a lower possibility of degrading the service quality and worsening the working conditions in long-term care labor market. Japan’s experience on the policy on migrant work in the long-term care system gives implications for South Korea’s long-term care system. The policy on migrant work in elderly care should not simply focus on solving the labor shortage problem and consider all the relevant aspects including the service quality, the labor market for elderly care, and migrant workers’ rights.

This paper aims to examine the difference of cultural participation among the cultural disadvantaged groups and analyze the effect of the integrated cultural voucher program. Although the policy definition of the cultural disadvantaged group is changing comprehensively, more than 70% of the budget for cultural welfare is used for the integrated cultural voucher program that give a voucher to the economically disadvantaged people. Furthermore, the existing discussion on the cultural disadvantaged group focused on identifying the gaps caused by disadvantaged factors, and there were no discussions on the case of overlapping. Therefore, this paper analyzed the differences in participation rate, diversity, and frequency between the groups. The results of the analysis are as follows. First, disadvantage for older was the biggest obstacle to cultural participation. Second, more cultural disadvantage factors were overlapped, the lower the level of cultural participation was. Lastly, the integrated cultural voucher program has affected only economically disadvantaged group, not double-disadvantaged groups. This paper suggest that future policy design requires consideration of the elderly and double-disadvantaged groups.