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Social Changes and Welfare Reform in South Korea: In the Context of the Late‐coming Welfare State

Social Changes and Welfare Reform in South Korea: In the Context of the Late‐coming Welfare State The Korean welfare state is facing diverse pressures and challenges due to changing economic, social, and demographic circumstances: prevalence of the service economy, labor market flexibility, weakened family function and increase of untraditional families, lowest fertility rate and the most rapid ageing of the population among OECD countries, and so forth. These challenges, which indicate new types of social risks, have been stimulating a series of discussions on welfare reform in Korea. The old social risks such as retirement, ill health, poverty, and unemployment have not disappeared because of insecure or inadequate welfare, and now these risks are even intertwined with the so‐called new social risks. Thereby the Korean welfare state is facing complicated reform tasks. This study attempts to analyze the structure and context of these challenges in Korea, and to explore the various driving forces that have formulated Korean welfare reform in recent decades. Through the above analyses, this study will shed light the characteristics of welfare reform in Korea as a late‐coming welfare state. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Japanese Sociology Wiley

Social Changes and Welfare Reform in South Korea: In the Context of the Late‐coming Welfare State

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© 2009 The Author. Journal compilation © 2009 The Japan Sociological Society
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0918-7545
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1475-6781
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10.1111/j.1475-6781.2009.01116.x
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The Korean welfare state is facing diverse pressures and challenges due to changing economic, social, and demographic circumstances: prevalence of the service economy, labor market flexibility, weakened family function and increase of untraditional families, lowest fertility rate and the most rapid ageing of the population among OECD countries, and so forth. These challenges, which indicate new types of social risks, have been stimulating a series of discussions on welfare reform in Korea. The old social risks such as retirement, ill health, poverty, and unemployment have not disappeared because of insecure or inadequate welfare, and now these risks are even intertwined with the so‐called new social risks. Thereby the Korean welfare state is facing complicated reform tasks. This study attempts to analyze the structure and context of these challenges in Korea, and to explore the various driving forces that have formulated Korean welfare reform in recent decades. Through the above analyses, this study will shed light the characteristics of welfare reform in Korea as a late‐coming welfare state.

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International Journal of Japanese Sociology – Wiley

Published: Nov 1, 2009

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