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The aims of this study was to investigate the meaning of the quality of life recognized by the elderly in Korea by applying the qualitative interpretive meta-synthesis (QIMS) newly introduced in the social welfare field at Korea and other countries. The quality of life of the elderly in Korea is negatively and positively influenced by various factors such as degenerative elderly disease, lifestyle and life environment choice, extension of aging, extension of life expectancy, and rapid social change. This study integrates the existing individual qualitative research results and reinterprets them on the premise that they emphasize and explore the risk factors and protective factors related to the quality of life of the elderly in Korea through the systematic process of qualitative and interpretive meta-synthesis. The results of the study are as follows: 4 independent and comprehensive themes were created; (1) various life experiences, (2) maintaining a good state, (3) taking better care of oneself, (4) taking new perspective on life. Based on these results, this study aims to contribute to the development of the quality of life theory considering the characteristics of the elderly in Korea in the future, and to provide a greater understanding of the researchers and experts in the field of social welfare practice such as welfare for the elderly and welfare for the disabled in strengthening the maintenance and improvement factors related to the quality of life of the elderly.

Active administration is required to more effectively respond to recent changes in the administrative environment and the demand and response situation of the people. Therefore, this study aims to find the developmental direction of active administration through historical and administrative discussions at another level, as existing discussions such as immunity and compensation for public officials have limitations in explaining the legitimacy and validity of active administration. In this context, the purpose of this study is not only to grasp the trend of changes in active administration through Big-data, but also to explore the theoretical limitations of active administration and to have a developmental discussion to overcome them. We would like to answer the fundamental questions of active administration through an essential approach, such as the applicability of the active administration.

The purpose of this study is analysing the belief systems of advocacy coalition concerned with autonomous private high school, especially focusing evaluation for designation. For this purpose, the Advocacy Coalition Framework(ACF) model is used. Despite the factors of ACF are many, policy advocacy coalition and belief systems are very important. The summary of study is as follows: First, in the process of evaluation for designation, the abolition advocacy coalition and maintenance advocacy coalition are conflicted with regard to belief systems. This resulted the struggle of each other for achieving policy object. Second, the belief systems of the abolition advocacy coalition are equalitarianism, generalization in education and administrative method, etc. But the belief systems of maintenance advocacy coalition are neo-liberalism, excellence in education, legal method, etc. But blanket abolition can cause the problem of policy consistency and sunk cost. Thus the law for autonomous private high school, not enforcement ordinance, is necessary.