Study on the South Korean "Relief" and Welfare Policy until the 1980s based on the Administraiton Materials

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380293
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic policy
• Research Institution: Shinshu University
• Principal Investigator: KIM Joseol 信州大学, 学術研究院社会科学系, 教授 (20186307)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 近代的社会保障制度 / 「救護行政」 / 経済開発VS社会開発 / 「民主化」と福祉改革

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study verifies, for the first time, the facts of the Korean welfare policy from the 1950s until the 1980s based on the date and materials made by the central and local governments and also by the research authorities. The reform of "the Relief Administration" by the Park Chung-hee government in the early 1960s can be evaluated as the origin of its modern welfare policy, although it was characterized by a specific financial system combined with the public and private assistances from abroad. Reasons why its "pre-modern" thoughts and system were maintained until the welfare revolution in the 1990s has been examined from the view point of the political economy.Furthermore how the new social and family issues in the urban poverty areas were dealt with by both the public and the private secters has been analyzed.
Four articles published in Shinshu Daigaku Keizaigaku Ronshu will be collected into one book both in Japanese and Korean: “Formation of the Social Security in South Korea.”

Free Research Field

韓国の経済と社会