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The family and ageing in Korea: a new concern and challenge
- Author:
- CHOI Sung-Jae
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 16(1), January 1996, pp.1-25.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Many changes in familial factors under the influence of modernisation have limited the Korean family's function or capability to support and care for elderly members, and are contributing to the problems of ageing. Ageing as a social problem is a new concern in Korea which has never been experienced before, and a new challenge to the family and the state. Problems associated with current policies are discussed and recommendations for future development are made.
Social work intervention with migrant workers in South Korea
- Authors:
- CHOI Jae-Sung, CHOI Soochan
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 48(5), September 2005, pp.655-665.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Although migrant workers have emerged as a major force throughout Korean industry, they are often alienated by disadvantageous labor conditions as well as social discrimination as a whole. Social workers in the work-place can themselves utilize the micro and macro procedures of assisting troubled newcomers.
Improving scientific inquiry for social work in South Korea: the Center for Social welfare Research at Yonsei University
- Authors:
- CHOI Jae-Sung, CHOI Soochan, KIM Yujin
- Journal article citation:
- Research on Social Work Practice, 19(4), July 2009, pp.464-471.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article examines current social issues and welfare needs in South Korea and discusses societal efforts to respond to these needs through social welfare systems nationwide. It also reviews how social work scholars, major contributors to the creation of a Korean welfare state, have contributed to the conditions of social work practice by detailing both the profile of social work research and the characteristics of social work publication. In response to the call for Korean social work practice to lay a culturally relevant foundation for empirically based practice, the authors particularly emphasise the various roles of a university-based research center and propose that the center's academic and policy level contributions be considered to help develop a unique model that the Korean welfare systems must apply in a global era.
The effectiveness of poverty reduction and the target efficiency of social security transfers in South Korea, 1999–2003
- Authors:
- CHOI Jae-Sung, CHOI Jeong-Kyun
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 16(2), April 2007, pp.183-189.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of social security transfers between 1999 and 2003 in South Korea, the period during which the Asian economic crisis of 1997 occurred. The study used a secondary data set, which is part of the Korea Labour Panel Data. Of 5,000 original household samples, the results for the 2,728 households (54.6 per cent) that completed the surveys for all five years studied were analysed. One finding was that the average percentage of social security transfers appeared to be nominal, as was the 1.9 per cent in 1999, which grew to 2.4 per cent in 2003. Another finding was that the average poverty-reduction effectiveness for the five-year period was as low as 7.9 per cent, indicating a slightly increasing pattern. This percentage is only one-seventh to one-tenth that of Western countries. Target efficiency appeared to be 31.8 per cent. The authors give the following reasons to explain why the level of the poverty-reduction effectiveness of Korean social security transfers is comparatively low: the immaturity of the Korean Old Age Pension; the lack of diversity in social transfer programmes; and a cultural factor of stronger dependency on private transfers within the family structure.