The purpose of this paper is to contribute to make the welfare delivery system better carried out in the future. Firstly, the paper finds out the problems and defects of current welfare delivery system in performing minimum standard of living security...
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to make the welfare delivery system better carried out in the future. Firstly, the paper finds out the problems and defects of current welfare delivery system in performing minimum standard of living security system. Secondly, the paper studies on the solutions of such problems and defects. Lastly, the paper suggests and puts onto discuss the alternatives for improvement of the welfare delivery system.
Today, we have enjoyed better physical conditions due to a rapid growth of economy. However, unexpected social problems have been a sharp rise. To illustrate with good examples, we can point out breakdown of conventional sense of value, materialism, and break-up of the family system. These undesired environment has generated problems of old peoples to support and children & the youth to take care of.
In 1998, Korean economy had been severely impacted by foreign exchange crisis, which caused the work-out in the local industries. The work-out produced mass unemployment and increase of economical crimes and sleepers in the open air. In addition, the age was productive of many children abandoned by parents who were suffered from unexpected economy depression. This social and economic unrest has led to strong intervention of the government.
To overcome these worst effects of the post-Korean economy downturn, the government must pay considerable social cost, leading to expansion of social security system which has released the people from social and economic unrest.
The response of the government to these social and economic unrest was to expand the public welfare. In a way to improve the limit of Protection of Minimum Living Standards Act, the basic level of living security has entered into its implementation since October 2000. This introduction was the big turning point of the public welfare environment.
The basic level of living security, going a step farther than existing the minimum standard of livelihood security, put people in the way of getting their living. In selection of beneficiary, comprehensive surveys on asset, income have been carried out. This system covers post-management, so requires an advanced something different from existing livelihood protection system, like a public welfare delivery system.
The purpose of the public welfare system is to provide the beneficiary of the welfare with proper services so that they can enhance their quality of life. With this, how comprise of the public welfare delivery system is the key concern in the effectiveness of the public welfare.
Current public welfare system has some problems in delivering its system to many beneficiaries. The system has no organization responsible for social welfare, so it is impossible for them to perform specialized administration. This absence of higher level of administration has produced lower quality of services.
The delivery structure of the public welfare system is so complicate. It is frequently occurred that the contents of a policy are incorrectly delivered or even not delivered at all.
To resolve these kind of problems, recent studies are developing theories based on the examples at overseas and/or proposing an establishment of exclusive public welfare delivery organization.
However, the major structure of the recent studies is the proposal of a new welfare organization, which is generated away from experience and reality.
Therefore, this paper, based on existing administrative structure, aims to seek ways to resolve the problems we have faced. First of all, the paper reviews the related papers and references done up to now, then, understands and analyzes the problems in delivering public welfare policies through interviewing officers who are in charge of delivering public welfare policies. Based on these courses, the paper tries to provide recommendations which can be put into practice at fields. The delivery of this paper may be discussed as ways to resolve the problems we have experienced.
The paper sets a framework for understanding the general problems in current delivery system of the public welfare, and then trying to find some proper resolutions.
In this conclusion, many of the officers who are in charge of the welfare affairs wished for the improvement of the public welfare delivery system. Without a systematic welfare affairs structure, no welfare affairs can be done well as being desired. The improvements of such the welfare delivery system have yet to be studied and developed.